> Kucha, Arotiri, & Knossus were all highly developed urban architecture.
> Its not what is there, its what is not: slums. Tripolye, on the Dneiper
> below Kiev, is the oldest, mid 5th mil BC, and largest, but somewhat of a
> stretch to call it a city.
>
> It was a collection of villages and towns strung out along the river, all
> built of timber frame. The space between them was deliberate so that if
> one started on fire, which did happen, it didnt take out the whole damn
> thing like Chicago. It was a string of industrial zones, tannery, pottery,
> weaving, metal work, etc.
>
> But again, no slums. There's one community that is hundreds of years old
> in the Himalaya mtns of SW China that never had a slummy part of town
> either. But all of the above were very active in trade, operating in free
> markets, often dominating them. They were all also run by women.
>
> It does not matter whether a system is extreme socialism or far right wing
> capitalism, men will figure out how to corrupt it to get the status
> symbols that will attract more pussy. Women in power dont have the
> problem. They can get laid without having to control the bodies of men,
> and when they have a kid, they dont worry about whether it is theirs.
>
> As a result, they dont craft the draconian law to ensure progeny get the
> correct support from parents. They dont pass laws against abortion, so
> that every kid that is born, is there because the mother wanted it. As a
> result, they dont have abused children growing up to become psychos. As a
> result of that, they dont have the dysfunctional people you staff a slum
> with. With women in charge, if a woman is crazy, they dont breed her. They
> may, as Kucha did, draft her into the brothels owned by the city. The
> profits from that replaced taxes.
>
> You want a free market? Kucha knew how to do it. Most of the Silk that
> left China for the West passed thru Kucha. the rest of it stayed there.
> For hundreds of years, Kucha had the best dressed people in the world.
> But no slums. They only bred smart sane women. And got smart sane sons.
> Who got filthy rich. In the world's first transnational free market.