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Comment author: [deleted] 09 March 2013 11:22:11PM 2 points [-]

on a decades-long scale, with the general pace of scientific progress worldwide, societies have to research as hard as they can just to stay in the same place.

Anyone who has played the Civilization series (on any real difficulty level) has no doubt experienced this first hand.

Comment author: wedrifid 10 March 2013 08:09:54AM 4 points [-]

Anyone who has played the Civilization series (on any real difficulty level) has no doubt experienced this first hand.

I learned while playing those games that it is possible to stay ahead in technological advancement without doing any research of my own. Being the middle man is incredibly rewarding.

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