My wife wondered what would stop regions from gaining autonomy from the region it's in. So for example Catalonia could become autonomous, but what would stop Barcelona from becoming autonomous from Catalonia? And after that what would stop Girona and Taragona from becoming their own autonomous regions? There's a size limit for what we consider a pizza, and when it's divided you get slices that can't get much smaller or larger either. If you make it much larger or too small, people will identify it as something else. Same will work for governance of small city states or regions, people identify strongly with where they're from. The people who live there don't want to split off from what they identify with because it requires building a new identity. Just like a 15' or a 3/16" slice of pizza would be considered weird. People wouldn't stand for receiving it nor paying for it in kind after ordering it.
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Interesting.. 🤔
Is that something you cane up with, or you read that somewhere else?
What I like is that there is an interesting relationship between the diameter of a pizza and the size (and shape) of x number of slices from it. A smaller pie could give you a smaller number of slices that would be nearly equivalent in size and shape to a larger diameter pie. The shapes would be different, but their nutritional content would be identical.
There's something there wrt the original zone and it's potential for division
I think ideas like these come together because of dialectics. By studying I'm learning how to think like those before me. Ideas, discoveries, inventions are a sum of formulated thoughts that came before them.
The reason I like the pizza metaphor in this case is because it's been used to falsely describe #Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a scaling denominator because the total supply adjusts to the market. Pizza doesn't do that, a pizza is only functional in a fixed ratio to its total, nutritional value.
I get it. Thanks man 🤙