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a natural state would not have technology.
I would also tend to be libertarian if technology didn't exist. Technology changes the game:
- you can process millions of transactions a minute without a bottle neck from humans
- you can produce plastic, and lots of it
- you can migrate hundreds of thousand of human around the world, which would normally be an invasion
- you can destroy the environment (not so easy without technology)
- you can addict an entire generation of humans to a device (video games, porn, social media)
Without technology there is only so much a person or organization can do.
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a natural state would not have technology.
I would also tend to be libertarian if technology didn't exist. Technology changes the game:
- you can process millions of transactions a minute without a bottle neck from humans
- you can produce plastic, and lots of it
- you can migrate hundreds of thousand of human around the world, which would normally be an invasion
- you can destroy the environment (not so easy without technology)
- you can addict an entire generation of humans to a device (video games, porn, social media)
Without technology there is only so much a person or organization can do.