Entropy, Compound and Game Theory

20260115 - Preface 20260115 - Introduction ......adult male workers lost out: the share of children workers rapidly expanded, reaching about half of the workforce employed in textiles during the 1830s. p9 I never thought of this! Sending children to school killed two birds with one stone. And more broadly, cascading competition among nation-states made it harder to align technological conservatism with the political status quo. The outside threat of political replacement became greater than the threat of rebelling workmen from below. p19 The political elites never back off unless they are under existential external threat. All the same. Part I. The Great Stagnation 20260120 - 1. A Brief History of Preindustrial Progress - 33 What's the difference between labor-saving technology and enabling(capital-saving) technology? Labor-saving technology use power from sources other than human. This power includes both energy and intelligence. Fierce war and competitions crash the restrain...