On a day-to-day basis you can largely ignore the effects of your house's gravity. No satellites circle it to be avoided as you step out the door, and few people worry that their house will ignite into a ball of fusing plasma, or expand rapidly into a red giant and consume the neighbors. Many aspects of society parallel this in an important way...
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The Problem and Opportunity of Scale
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On a day-to-day basis you can largely ignore the effects of your house's gravity. No satellites circle it to be avoided as you step out the door, and few people worry that their house will ignite into a ball of fusing plasma, or expand rapidly into a red giant and consume the neighbors. Many aspects of society parallel this in an important way...