From: xgl (xli03@emory.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 19:19:42 MDT
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 hal@finney.org wrote:
> When you're wealthy you have the luxury to indulge your whims and desires.
> With modern communications you can find like-minded individuals anywhere
> in the world to reinforce your quirkiest beliefs. I can't count the
> number of times I've seen people say, "man, I thought I was the only one
> who thought/felt this way, until I found this group..." I suspect that
> a wealthy future world will have far more diversity and social variation
> than we see today.
>
actually, i meant social divergence as separate from "personal
diversity." that is, most of the different directions that _nations_ have
taken seem to be driven by their respective niches in the resource
economy. now that i think about it, however, even this view doesn't seem
very relevant because new allegiances along different gradients will almost
certainly rise.
-x
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