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Originally Posted by Agemegos
It's not really TL 4, any more than modern Ethiopia is TL 2. It's a badly organised and underdeveloped part of a TL 10 interstellar economy, where people are poor because they use TL 4 methods of industrial organisation, and can produce only corresponding unsophisticated components, but where they have a legacy of TL 10 genetically engineered crops and are able to import TL 10 products and components, albeit at a steep disadvantage in the real exchange rate.
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That works, it's what I'd call TL4-10, but that's just terminology semantics.
I spent much of the past couple of years working in various ports in sub-Saharan Africa and the dichotomy of TL1-8 which can be found within miles of each other is fascinating.
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Originally Posted by Agemegos
Why stomp down on cultural divergence? So long as the peasants eat the food and wear the clothes they are given, build the houses they are told to build, do the work they are told to do when they are told with the tools and materials supplied, and show a proper respect to their betters who cares if their culture changes?
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That's a massively significant ingrained cultural aspect right there, peasants pacified with their lot in life and obedient to the whims of their aristocracy