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To: Robin Plunder who wrote (97611)	1/8/2013 11:14:19 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218043

And look at the division of labour we have possible now: <would definitely highlight our need for division of labor..doctors, builders, repair and service of appliances...delivery of appliances, consumer goods, livestock, fertilizer, farm equipment.> 7 billion people, with billions of them grossly under-employed. No wonder the world is taking off like a rocket [contrary to popular mythology related to debts, conflicts and the odd famine]. 100 people can work on something which can be used by 7 billion people, so the unit costs are near zero. Since so much of what is done is brain work, with the products being used for data management, any hardware required can normally be made from plastic and other cheap materials by billion. It's not like the old days when to get some economic development a steel mill had to be built, and a huge mine to supply it, and a huge car factory, and oil wells, and refineries, not to mention roads and bridges. Norfolk Island was marginal at best. Idyllic in a way, but you wouldn't want to live there. Life was tough in England too so Norfolk Island must have seemed like an exciting opportunity. Strange really. "Hey, let's leave the village, get on a ship and sail to a tiny island in the middle of nowhere on the other side of the planet". Mqurice