Slave Labor

Typically, what defeats tribalists is destroying their slave labor system: the emancipation of women and captured members of other tribes.

Which is why I suggest more electricity is needed in Iraq.

Slave labor cannot compete against the electric motor.

Surprisingly Buckminster Fuller rated electric motors in "slave equivalents" in 1940. Over 65 years ago. You know it is possible the guy was on to something. Energy under control equals liberation.

Here is the Fuller definition of an energy slave. It is 150,000 ft-lbs a day for 250 days a year. That would be about 14.12 kWh a year. Bucky thought a middle class family required one hundred energy slaves per person; that would be 1412 kWh per year. At $.15 per kWh delivered that would be about $220 per year per person or $1100 per year for a family of five. Roughly one hundred dollars a month.