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"Better to trade with them. Better for us, better for them." That would be the non-violent slow social take-over. Still depends on high social output.
by newt0311 18y ago
"Better to trade with them. Better for us, better for them."
That would be the non-violent slow social take-over. Still depends on high social output.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoSo when you go to the market and sell your hand-grown tomatoes, is the guy you're selling them to taking over your home garden? Trade is not social take-over. You can trade and have any society you want. All is required is established contract law and private property rights.
- newt0311 18y agoNo, but if the other guy is richer, you will either start to emulate him (and become richer and more like him yourself), or he will eventually become a stockholder of yours at which point, he has effectively taken over. Do this across generations, and you have societies taking over others. It is no coincidence that no one emulates the society of Soviet Russia but everyone across the world emulates the rich high-output western ones.