Predator-Prey Economics with Oswaldo Lairet (WiM217)
The "What is Money?" Show
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The Most Organized Form of Crime in the World, Right?
There's a darwinian impulse for self preservation, right? This exists in all organisms. If i can enrich myself by taking someone's wealth, maybe not i specifically, but maybe in certain circumstances, me specifically, i would do that, right? I would have an incentive to do that. So the name of the game is to make property violation or taking, really expensive or risky or difficult. The more, the more difficult it is to take people's property, the less profitable it is to be coercive,. And so government is effectively the most organized crime in the world.
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