Or rather, according to the Dreadful Wikipeejah, the 'nation of shopkeepers' is from 'The wealth of nations' rather than some militaristic French chap. This leads a fellow to wonder about the set of circumstances required for 'nation of scrap-dealers' to be used instead and then speculate about the nature of a story involving same.
Perhaps some odd version of the industrial revolution which became more distributed because, um, railways got invented faster and the whole just-in-time thing happened two hundred years too early?
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Date: 2011-09-28 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-28 10:10 pm (UTC)Or rather, according to the Dreadful Wikipeejah, the 'nation of shopkeepers' is from 'The wealth of nations' rather than some militaristic French chap. This leads a fellow to wonder about the set of circumstances required for 'nation of scrap-dealers' to be used instead and then speculate about the nature of a story involving same.
Perhaps some odd version of the industrial revolution which became more distributed because, um, railways got invented faster and the whole just-in-time thing happened two hundred years too early?
I don't know. I R NOT HSTRIN, I R SRS SPOD.
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Date: 2011-10-14 09:41 pm (UTC)