You'd probably never pick up a pound of flour once a year. That shit used to spoil so fast, they added preservatives to let it keep for better transportation. If every town has a local mill, you'd just go and get flour when you need it and not enough that it'd spoil.
I dunno about slavery. Abolitionists would still be around. It wasn't tech that made slavery unproductive compared to wage-labor it was the actual mode of production. I think capitalism is definitely blunted without easy access to energy.
It seems without cotton processing via steamdriven engines, collected cotton can only be processed manually/animals driven, so that collapses very fast, uk cannot feed so many animals, so primary commodities will have to be processed in places. This requires more man labor :shrug-outta-hecks:
As I’ve mentioned, imperialism would be significantly challenged sans quick logistics (at least late imperialism with quick shipping and quick commodities movement).
You'd probably never pick up a pound of flour once a year. That shit used to spoil so fast, they added preservatives to let it keep for better transportation. If every town has a local mill, you'd just go and get flour when you need it and not enough that it'd spoil.
I dunno about slavery. Abolitionists would still be around. It wasn't tech that made slavery unproductive compared to wage-labor it was the actual mode of production. I think capitalism is definitely blunted without easy access to energy.
It seems without cotton processing via steamdriven engines, collected cotton can only be processed manually/animals driven, so that collapses very fast, uk cannot feed so many animals, so primary commodities will have to be processed in places. This requires more man labor :shrug-outta-hecks:
As I’ve mentioned, imperialism would be significantly challenged sans quick logistics (at least late imperialism with quick shipping and quick commodities movement).