Joseph Tainter's analysis of collapsing societies identifies with precision that complex societies maintain specialists whose entire economic function depends on the maintenance of that complexity, so when complexity collapses, those specialists become redundant—the skills that survive are invariably those that function at lower levels of complexity.
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Unidentified Speaker — When Rome's Economy Collapsed, Only These 4 Assets Survived [SrPNp6MAXH0]Evidence Quote
“Complex societies maintain specialists whose entire economic function depends on the maintenance of that complexity. When complexity collapses, those specialists become redundant. The skills that survive are invariably those that function at lower levels of complexity.”
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