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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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Are You Projecting the Power, Outsourcing the Projection of Power, or Defenseless?

So youre either projecting the power, outsourcing the projection of power, or you're defenseless. So this is actually a perfect setway into how civilization, at least what we see to day, agrarian civilization, emerged before that. And so these are all different strategies. This gets into the clever part. You have all these different tactics that you use to play this power projection game in a more clever way. Being powerful alone isn't enough to win the game. You have to be clever. It's a probablistic game. You're not guaranteed to win. The winner controls the state and chain of custody of it basically writes the ledger of resources - whose meat belongs

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