by I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but our society has a tremendous reliance on power built in. I’m not talking about electricity here, although it’s particularly important to the operation of our society on pretty much every level. Electricity, and the ability to produce it, basically determines how prosperous your society and its individual members can be, on average. In any society, slight differences in ability or starting position can make huge difference in the long run. Big differences in those same areas can increase those disparities by orders of magnitude. And that’s the kind of power, fundamentally, I’m talking about. Even if the electrical kind, however generated, is…