Or other parts of the economy being left behind

Also big issue was the focus on heavy industry

Not to mention when they industrialized the country by forcing rural people into cities and selling corn and whatnot abroad causing a famine

Just so they could buy tractors

I'd really advise you to look up the calculation-problem, if you find the time. *A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru* is a really good demonstration of it. The Peruvians were more socialistic than about any other society that ever existed, and it functioned. However, it did so because their economy was extremely primitive. All their tools were multi-purpose and no production process took more than three or four steps, at most.

I'm familiar they didn't use money

Yep

I wonder if they kept track with knots though

I doubt them not using quasi currency

Like debt based one

I haven't heard of them doing so, except in the border regions

Or similiar to temple complex economies of antiquity

Maybe within the upper classes, too

Idk what other use they would have for the knots

Calculation and keeping statistics

They had a very good census system

Always knew which cities required how much food

They never suffered a famine, from what I know

Even though they migrated populations when they felt like it, to split up rebellious communities, for example. Yet they never fell into a Malthusian trap, which is something that tends to happen with population displacement

Might be because the people there didn't need to fear Stalin when reporting bad harvests

Yep

The Incas could be brutal but they really tried hard not to suffer any famine

They flayed enemies and one of them decreed that all children should have their skulls deformed so they'd become docile

It wasn't such benevolence, however. Their record keeping and statistical work just blows my mind. Imagine micromanaging an entire economy using only knots. I don't think they even had the wheel.

Oh, and one thing that I just found mindblowing: To build a house, they needed sand, rocks, geometry, and lots of labor. Their cities? All built using methods that are ingenious and labor-consuming, and almost without any specialized capital at all. Or any capital, really.

The incas are rage
brutal
without mercy
but the spaniards
they are worse
rip and tear until its done

I just got an online assignment in my government class to create a new political party, any ideas?

uh oh

sounds like trouble

I haven’t been told how much edginess I can put into it lol

Probably not much

I'm not sure how you'd go about asking that question either

You could be sarcastic and make it the most green quadrant party to ever green quadrant

I could go full communist and I wouldn’t get in trouble

what's the teacher like?

Commie party anyone?

Liberal teacher

Does this teacher foster discussion and is she interested in other viewpoints?

Yes but I wouldn’t imagine he’s a fan of stuff outside the current Overton window.

*Ehem*

She?