Re: Re: Devotees are geeks!

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:19:05 +0000 (GMT)

Nor mine. But they are *specialists*. And there is a limit to how many specialists a comparatively primitive society can support. You need a large number of people in a community to even think about it, and even then, those who specialise in tasks of high general importance will be the first to appear. Herding. Fighting. Can you see a Heortling clan supporting a Devotee of Hairdressing? Nor me. But I bet the Lunar Empire, taken as one community, supports at least one such.

This RW society supports me as a specialist in database design and web database query systems. That's pretty specialist! Now have a think about the size of the society that can afford to do that.



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