Stoneleigh on the entropy of empire (indirectly explaining why poor people need to be poor so rich people can be rich).

“In order to generate a low entropy (ordered) state from a higher entropy (less ordered) state, energy external to the system is needed to drive the concentration of energy within the system uphill. However, entropy in the larger system must increase, in accordance with the laws of thermodynamics. If energy is to be concentrated at [...] http://bit.ly/aEh89i