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The Evolution of Property and Warfare | The Jason Lowery Series | Episode 2 (WiM129)

The "What is Money?" Show

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Military Conquerors, Economists?

If i put a million dollars in an open bed truck and drive it to the middle of time square and park it there and leave it, what's going to happen? Can i get rated? How long until somebody takes it? Right? Do you even feel bad that someone would have their million dollars? Like, i don't feel bad. So from now on, i'm calling military conquerors economists. The lesson is the return non investment of capture, capturing your monetized territory, increases if you don't put up any defence. Because these people aren't defending their stuff, so why wouldn't you? And so this back to what we talked about earlier. There's a problem with

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