• WanderingThoughts
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    A lot also depends on what the society does. If it’s only resource extraction, you give people a pick axe and whip them until they start digging. If you want people to do science and engineering, you have to take care of people or you’ll have subpar results.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      But a society that does just resource extraction won’t outperform a society that does research and engineering. It all kinda plays into everything else