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| writing:solarpunk_in_fantasy_settings [2026/02/20 02:23] – JacobCoffinWrites | writing:solarpunk_in_fantasy_settings [2026/04/23 02:32] (current) – JacobCoffinWrites |
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| In a way, the idea of the structured system of independent drivers operating on planned routes is itself a technology which can fit any vehicle such as water taxis, or [[https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/how-to-downsize-a-transport-network-the-chinese-wheelbarrow/|Chinese wheelbarrows]]. | In a way, the idea of the structured system of independent drivers operating on planned routes is itself a technology which can fit any vehicle such as water taxis, or [[https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/how-to-downsize-a-transport-network-the-chinese-wheelbarrow/|Chinese wheelbarrows]]. |
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| | On that subject, [[https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2026/04/rediscovering-the-handcart/|a well-balanced hand cart]] with two wheels can be remarkably useful for moving heavy or bulky cargos - or even allowing a pair or group to move faster by taking turns riding, allowing one or some to rest without taking time to stop. |
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| There's a ton of alternative ways to organize and run a society, many of which have been done at some place and time, sometimes successfully for hundreds of years. Capitalism doesn't like acknowledge that other systems can work and our current society has done a fair job of burying some of this history. This is one area where I hope we can expand this article in the future, though I'll acknowledge that I'm not terribly qualified to gather and write up these snippets of other cultures. | There's a ton of alternative ways to organize and run a society, many of which have been done at some place and time, sometimes successfully for hundreds of years. Capitalism doesn't like acknowledge that other systems can work and our current society has done a fair job of burying some of this history. This is one area where I hope we can expand this article in the future, though I'll acknowledge that I'm not terribly qualified to gather and write up these snippets of other cultures. |
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| | From a modern perspective the original Luddites look a lot like a labor movement given the antifa scare treatment by the ownership class of their day: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/ |
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