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WiM002 - The Saylor Series | Episode 2 | The Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Role of the Gatekeeper in the History of the World

The term freeport means that you can dock there without havinga half yourself, or a percentage of yourself, confiscated. That's actualy where we get the term freeport. Whatever local monopoly on violence existed, they always wielded that monopoly to extract value from those conducting business and creating economic us in their guarded territory. Gover s have always used the weapon of the law as an instrument of plunder.

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