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Thats why no private city-state will be created near natural resource. It will be extremely stupid.

• eponeponepon 9y ago
  And two city-states competing for the same natural resource will share it with each other in enlightened cooperation? No, that isn't how the primate territorial instinct works.
  • wav-part 9y ago
    Assuming we are talking about city-states of problem solvers. Than they will neither compete nor cooperate. They will just pay the market value for a barrel of oil. Instead, the fierce and low-margin/high-risk compitition actually exist between aggressors 1. for the control of same region (eg Saudi Arabia) and, 2. providing same product (eg crude oil).