28 - Balaji Srinivasan | Collective Action and the Network State
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Build, Critiquing, and Criticizing the Critics of Builders
civilization is a game where you can start as the iroquois or the indian. The thing about civilization is that others guaranteed way to lose, which is to just put everything into commerce and technology without any defence. And so you just end up as this sort of primitive barbarian tribe that's attacking and you don't love. That's what happens when you're at 99% commerce, an acknoledges, zero % offence,. ok, commersely. If all you do is you crank out soldiers and stuff, wellat saying, ah, you know, you may have defense, but you don't have a civilization worth defending. Egt and go head-
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