Well, my point was more limited—in the example the rich high-tech city lost wealth (which they will replenish eventually) and the poor village didn’t gain anything.
You can get into a deeper analysis which would involve e.g. motivations and incentives (what happens to people who get used to living on free handouts?), necessary concentration of capital (a semiconductor fab costs a few billions of dollars, who will build it?), etc. but it’s a large topic.
Lumifer’s point is that if you do an extreme enough redistribution, what will happen is that the whole technological system will just collapse.
Well, my point was more limited—in the example the rich high-tech city lost wealth (which they will replenish eventually) and the poor village didn’t gain anything.
You can get into a deeper analysis which would involve e.g. motivations and incentives (what happens to people who get used to living on free handouts?), necessary concentration of capital (a semiconductor fab costs a few billions of dollars, who will build it?), etc. but it’s a large topic.