[TML] [Merchant Shipping] Some ideas I came up with to make merchant shipping more interesing

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 4/19/08 4:06 AM, "shadow at shadowgard.com" <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:

> The same arguments could be made for centralized food storage and
> preparation areas. And the costs and *social* costs* are going to be
> similar.
> 
> Not saying that it can't happen, just that it'd likely be more
> trouble than it was worth for the government.

I think this may be the lesson we can take from this whole discussion.

Many things are as they are for cultural rather than economic reasons.  It's
entirely probably that centralization vs. decentralization of power plants
is such a thing.

As for the whole low-tech planet issue, if they're all that low tech, why do
they need so much electricity?  And if they have all that electricity so
cheaply available, why are they still low-tech after centuries?