> Easier ways for a government to get money; namely, just print some. What is money? If a government wants more domestic resources, it can get it by printing m

> Easier ways for a government to get money; namely, just print some. What is money? If a government wants more domestic resources, it can get it by printing money. If a state is so limited in domestic resources that it fundamentally needs resources from outside, printing money doesn't help. Printing money can help a state devote more of its country's resources to trade, but if no one wants to trade with you at any cost, it doesn't matter what parts of the local economy the state controls. North Korea has incentives compatible with these kinds of acts, and relatively few interesting ways of deploying software engineers locally.