Outsiders – http://www.lemodesittjr.com/2015/10/13/outsiders/
A good quote from Modesitt’s post (click link above):
“… without all the social and physical ‘infrastructure’ provided by American society and government, few if any of those successes would have been possible. Just having clean water and decent sanitation provides a great advantage. Almost half the world doesn’t have one or the other.”
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