Para el fin de semana

Les dejo tarea para el hogar, tienen que traer un resumen para el lunes.

Un ensayo de Bill Whittle, de hace un par de años, que acaba de reflotar (y se vienen algunos nuevos, whoooohooo).

WEB OF TRUST. Es extenso, pero con los textos de Bill, uno siempre quiere más, así que es positivo.

[...] Every trade, every transaction, increases the total wealth – for both parties. In a primitive society, where there are at most a few score connections among the people in that society, there is very little wealth, and very little leisure. The simplicity of those connections is plainly obvious. But how much more complex is Western Civilization?

If you could hear each of these transactions – trade and trust relationships – would that help? Tribal life as the sound of stones thrown into a pond at irregular intervals; a small village the clicks of Geiger counter; a city the buzz of a hive of angry bees… and the whole of our incredible, magnificent Western Civilization the clear, pure tone of a tuning fork.

This complexity is absolutely taken for granted. No one sees it. Ah, but Grasshopper…that is because you choose not to look.[...]