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Such a tribe would either be pre-technological then, or piggybacking on a technological society that did make those investments.

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>piggybacking on a technological society that did make those investments.

Indeed, every technological advancement has piggy backed on those before it.

Not the same thing - this tribe can't exist without infrastructure it cannot create or maintain itself. Your caring sharing tribe ain't going to be making a chip foundry or a means of powering it or extracting raw materials for it anytime soon. That needs capital.

What's not the same thing?

Plenty of such tribes exist and have existed without centralized industrial infrastructure.

The parent suggests it as an alternative to what we have now. That's not viable unless we want to regress to pre-agrarian levels.

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