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The Contradictions of Statism | The Hillebrand Series | Episode 9 (WiM068)

The "What is Money?" Show

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Did the Centralized, Top Down Nation State Emerge?

Could we conceive of other nation states as basely just competitors in the market for defence? That's, that's a good question. It's difficult to analyze history like that, you know, there's so many factors. We see with wtfiar empire, for example, that nation states tend to grow much larger and at a much more rapid scale. A, i'm guessing that that is somewhat reasonable. Ai, i guess one way to spin it to also your earlier question, is that because the defence of property was cheap at a centralized point, it was very cheap to that centralized point and gain a big benefit. And oll you could steal from a central target and then

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