From: "Phil Payne" 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> That's actually the official economic philosophy of North Korea.  It's
> called "juche" ("self-reliance") and has some
benefits but the drawbacks
> significantly outweigh them.  Consider wheat and flour.  Wheat requires
> nice level fields (to make harvesting easier) and flour requires (cut me
> some slack here) uneven land so that you can get the power from water
> running downhill to turn the millstones which will grind the grain into
> flour.

No slack available.  How did the Dutch feed themselves _and_ drain all that land?

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