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As soon as the thought finally, actually, explicitly occurs to Thellim that lower productivity per capital will result in less professional specialization, it is immediately obvious to her that this ought, in fact, to be the case.  If your children are starving in winter you probably do not have, say, fiction matchmakers.

But there's still got to be some specialization, right?  Right??

:...somebody in the region knows an unusual amount about which foreign countries would pay a lot for books.  I don't know who they are or what they'd be called... somebody you know would have a better subjective probability of knowing who else would know that person, than anybody else you know, though, I would hope?:

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As soon as the thought finally, actually, explicitly occurs to Thellim that lower productivity per capita might result in less professional specialization, it is immediately obvious to her that this ought, in fact, to be the case.  If your children are starving in winter you probably cannot afford say, fiction matchmakers.

But there's still got to be some specialization, right?  Right??

:...somebody in the region knows an unusual amount about which foreign countries would pay a lot for books.  I don't know who they are or what they'd be called... somebody you know would have a better subjective probability of knowing who else would know that person, than anybody else you know, though, I would hope?:

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As soon as the thought finally, actually, explicitly occurs to Thellim that lower productivity per capita might result in less professional specialization, it is immediately obvious to her that this ought, in fact, to be the case.  If your children are starving in winter you probably cannot afford fiction matchmakers.

But there's still got to be some specialization, right?  Right??

:...somebody in the region knows an unusual amount about which foreign countries would pay a lot for books.  I don't know who they are or what they'd be called... somebody you know would have a better subjective probability of knowing who else would know that person, than anybody else you know, though, I would hope?: