http://www.boxesandarrows.com/person/2902 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:21:29 GMT Comments by Joan Vermette <p>I guess&#8230;using a Tikopia as an example of successful adaptation is&#8230;interesting&#8230;you mention &#8220;stringent population control&#8221; measures they adopted, and it&#8217;s actually important to mention what those measures are: infanticide.</p> <p>So the Tikopians, in order not to have their culture fail, had to kill their own children.</p> <p>And, so, this is one of the things that keeps me from becoming an entrepreneur&#8230; a fear that I&#8217;d be asked, metaphorically of course, to kill my children&#8230;my pet ideas that in some cases might be the reason I started a business to begin with&#8230;and that might live and be useful if I weren&#8217;t living on a tiny island with limited resources&#8230;i.e., running my own tiny business.</p> <p>Anyone want to say more about this?</p> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/it-seemed-like-the#content_10368 http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/it-seemed-like-the#content_10368 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:21:29 GMT Joan Vermette