[bawolff]

Why not? That's how the rest of the world works. Almost every human endeavour forms a small world graph.

[cratermoon]

How's that working out?

[bawolff]

Decently well? Society has its problems, but its had some pretty cool accomplishments along the way.

More to the point, i think your argument would be more compelling if you had some examples of non-"small world graph" endeavours that worked out well. I'd love for some experiments, but i think we need some succesful experiments before saying that its a better model.

[cratermoon]

> Decently well?

There are millions of oppressed, desperately poor, and disadvantage people who would scoff at that assessment.