@AnotherStag This is why central planning always fails, why attempts to centrally plan economies inevitably end up in the situation we're in right now, and why only through freedom can you achieve abundance.
There's a common trope in western "back in time" literature where you "invent gunpowder" by saying "get me some sulphur, some charcoal, and some saltpeter!" as if most people know where they could get some saltpeter and sulphur right now if they needed it. That's a massive undertaking, and you don't even have a bullet or a gun yet, let alone someone who can actually craft something like that.
There's a common trope in western "back in time" literature where you "invent gunpowder" by saying "get me some sulphur, some charcoal, and some saltpeter!" as if most people know where they could get some saltpeter and sulphur right now if they needed it. That's a massive undertaking, and you don't even have a bullet or a gun yet, let alone someone who can actually craft something like that.
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