[quote=Valiance]
Why's that? I'm not saying the society would be any good, it's just that the compound thing wouldn't be a reason why it'd be bad. For example, things done with water would involve Hydrogen and Oxygen workers.
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I'm not trying to insult your or anything, but I just don't see how it would work. All that includes is resource gathering, which lacks education, infrastructure, government, etc. Carbon would be much too large, while others, such as Francium, would be much too small. It's like basing a society off of simple machines.