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Originally Posted by Sadre Spinegnawer
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A law is the opposite of arbitrary.
How do you propose we pay for the 7th Fleet? Is that, too, not part of this engine? How do you pay for the power of the state, which alone correlates to the currency value in a fiat system?
Who pays for the power, that makes the wealth mean anything? You aren't doing an analysis with all the variables. You're externalizing the cost of being a superpower.
And making some wheezing talking point my grandad used to make about "class wars!" and stuff that simply never amounts to much, or at least nothing compared to what would happen if the current power order of the world were to go another direction. Which, that is what you pay for: power strong enough to make sure things don't.
The wealthy never internalize the cost differential of being a billionaire in the western banking system, vs being in say, the Democratic Republic of Congo's banking system.
They have an open lifetime reservation to the best restaurant in town, and complain when the prices are raised.
Well, move your wealth! The DRC is working on a fleet, I'm sure.
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Originally Posted by Sadre Spinegnawer
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And yes, that was the trap. I got you to mention a law.
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What changed that we need the novel taking?
Your point about the DRC is well-taken, they did nationalize wealth somewhat.