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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Anterevolution, France was pre-industrial, feudal, and broke.  Broke because its wealth (wealth that had been derived from the labor of serfs at home and slaves in her colonies, and the exploitation of indigenous peoples) had been wasted by its government and aristocracy on wars and extravagance.  By 1789, wars and lifestyle had bled the country […] The post A Tale of Two Economies appeared first on Angry Bear.

Not important, but Dee Hock is a good thinker and worth reading.Dee W. HockIS A SECOND HAND LIFE WORTH LIVING? Dee Hock | Founder and former CEO of Visa and author of Birth of the Chaordic Age (1999) with an edition named One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization (2005) which includes two new chapters

This is an important article socially, politically and economically based on its implications. While there is a "digital divide" between analog people and digitally capable people, the more significant divide is between those that grew up in the transition to the digital age, with the introduction of mass computing in around 1980. The Apple II was introduced in 1977. The most significant digital divide generationally is between analog natives and digital natives. Now a further...