Re:America's Growing Gap in Digital Job Skills
by danbolt on Monday November 20, 2017 @12:16PM
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Can you clarify what you mean by "the same" for societies?
I could see that a lot of various net outcomes economically similar not due to biological factors, but rather a myriad of environmental ones. The Anna Karenina principle[1] means a lot if some societies get rice and Mediterranean Basins and World Banks, while others get tubers and mountains and slave-trading ships that buy people from you.
I feel like those factors would make a more significant difference, as a few thousand years isn't very long in evolution time, from what I understand.
I could see that a lot of various net outcomes economically similar not due to biological factors, but rather a myriad of environmental ones. The Anna Karenina principle[1] means a lot if some societies get rice and Mediterranean Basins and World Banks, while others get tubers and mountains and slave-trading ships that buy people from you.
I feel like those factors would make a more significant difference, as a few thousand years isn't very long in evolution time, from what I understand.
1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle