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Collapse won’t re-set Society, Part Two

30th November 2023 Going Postal 3096 Comments

Part One is here. If bureaucracy is resilient, then trade is eternal. Far from being a recent development of modern technology, archeological evidence shows global trade predating the Iron Age. In the 3rd millennium B.C., [more…]

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