The American men have a revolutionary new application of existing galactic technology. Spaceships travel faster than light by passing between the interference fringes of standing waves in space. The new application inverts the effect by making a stationary object generate fringes artificially. The first practical outcome is a paragrav detector of unprecedented sensitivity, enabling the Terrans to evade enemy craft while penetrating the Kandemirian system. A new theory of space-time-energy relationships will open many other possibilities.
The European women, working as large scale carriers and brokers while introducing innovations like profit sharing, systems analysis and motivational research in other cultures, upset the economic balance of a civilization-cluster with exponentially growing consequences and build a corporate structure that will outlast them but would they be able to do all this so quickly?
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Kaor, Paul!
You are doubtful the free enterprise expanding changes introduced by the European women would spread or take root so quickly. I would point out how DRASTICALLY mainland China economically changed after the Peking regime decided, around 1980 that the sclerotic Maoist socialist system was wrecking the country. So I think drastic economic changes are possible.
This is not to say China is not facing problems. It is--one being Peking has gone as far as it's possible to have a free enterprise system under a one party regime. The REGIME has not modernized and loosened its grip on power to match the modernization of the economy.
Sean
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