Amish works not becuase of the religious side but because they are small economies with much less diversity and fast reaction times. If they were truly a part of a huge lumbering economy, the chinks would soon become major holes.

In the same way as we march toward a single world economy, it is going to be even less freindly to localized areas, which before was maybe a city, then a state, now whole countries and soon entire hemisphers

our world economy has become a 1000 head dog each biting the others ears and all who want to go a different way

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