Think of the first settlements in the neolithic times. Agriculture is very vasic. However the more the population grows, the more scarcity and pressure there is. So you are forced to innovate to satisfy the growing demands. There is no competition present

Also how can this work if it not global?

The first settlements still moved or sent out long range hunters

Hunter gatherers had less famine than first agricultural societys

From what i have seen

By the time of thr first settlements hunter gatherer society had come to an end

Hell we dont even know how many settlements were simply abandoned due to scarcity

Um no.

This is not truw

We still have hunter gatherers today

But do they have permament settlements?

We have permanent settlements

Bedowins and tribesmen still mived around. Some would have perm settlements while others moved and traded with the perms

The first settlements didnt end hunt and gather. just expanded the gatherer so to speak

By the time a society reaches the point of a permanent settlement, you stop becoming a hunter gatherer society.

Of course Other societies still need to catch up

That came much later however

But this is besides the point

No that was your point

*when the first*

It wan example

Didnt want to delve too much into it

And again tons of those settlements were abandoned

Innovation mainly came from the currency of trade of knowledge

But that does not answer how it can be done if the global revolution never happens

The coutries that do not have revolution will just win.

Again

or without a huge drop in standard of living

Or from the need of wartime innovation

and near stop in innovation like medicine.

Not in the US

A need for another train track comes mostly by the need to have to transport more goods along it because it is reaching a point of inefficiency (consumption of fuel, carts and goods sent)

this was a huge issue in the soviet union

Since the overwhelming majority of that is private industry.

And china

They where reall inefficient at laying track that would bring resources where they needed to go

hell still are in places like laos, and cambodia

Nvm @Goblin_Slayer_Floki i misunderstood you

Of course but take into account the incredible difficult russian environement.

Yes but they have no indicators for how to efficently move and allocate resourses

Sobthey had a lot of waste