Re: Planetary Infrastructure/Invasion/etc

On 15 Jun 98 at 16:21, Jeff Lyon wrote:

[snip]

> Look at any human community.	In a really small town, what do you
> have?  A few essential businesses/stores/industries.	As the
> community grows, more people become involved in producing
> "supporting" services which do not directly contribute to the major
> local industries.  Only in the largest communities will you find the
> most advanced industries, but you will also find that only the
> smallest fraction of that community's labor force is directly
> involved in it.  The rest are plumbers and fast food workers and
> morticians.  The same is true on a larger scale for colony worlds.
 
Hey, don't leave out the thousands of telephone sanitizers ;)

<sorry, I had to>

Oh, and shoe shops.
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People will buy anthing that is 'one to a customer.' 
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