For or Against . . .

In a message dated 9/11/02 5:10:27 PM, tango_dancer@... writes:

<< I chose 250,000 because of research I came across that
stated that that was the minimal number of people required for
a "society to function." I'm completely willing to lower this
population number, and alter the primary proposition, but an
extremely good case would have to be made to lower that number down
to the 10,000 range. >>

150 is my answer as a starting max number of first settlers. The reason is
that we are hardwired to know each and every of 150 people. The first jobs
will be hard enough without complete trust in other people. You need that
first hand knowledge of fellow settlers to know his needs, wants, strengths
and weaknesses. As I see it, the first markets will be quite limited to
tourism, repair, research, and transit hub for rest of Near Froniter. Also,
to be blunt, you don't need that many people you projected in order to be
very profitable. In fact, larger the number the larger the number of
managers which can lead to large increase in redunant paperwork and very big
overhead will can cut deeply into profits and every cents must go toward
reinvestment and expansion. I don't know if you heard of Richard Koch, but
he is a very brillient man on the management. I still recommend his 80/20
Principle to anyone I spoken with. Basically, you can create a
supercorporation (if you so desire) with surprising small expends on manpower
and time. I can't describe the whole thing you'll have to read if you haven't
done so already.

Carl E. Mullin
visionary artist and entrepreneur
homo asteralis
ravenart@...
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