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>1) Buy or find an island around the size of Manhattan. This shouldn't be too hard. That's impossible. Unlike wealth, power is a zero-sum game, and a new count
by asdflkj 19y ago
>1) Buy or find an island around the size of Manhattan. This shouldn't be too hard.
That's impossible. Unlike wealth, power is a zero-sum game, and a new country (of the kind that matters) is against the interests of everyone who has power. Even if you somehow manage to buy land on terms that will allow you to become de jure sovereign (again, absolutely impossible), as soon as something happens to it (like Blackwater deciding to turn it into their private base), everyone will just cheer.
- ivankirigin 19y agoWhy would blackwater violate a contract with a paying customer? Power is not zero-sum. Trade is positive sum. That is very, very basic economics.
- asdflkj 19y ago>Why would blackwater violate a contract with a paying customer? Because their other paying customers, who pay them much more than you do, will compell them to? >Power is not zero-sum. Trade is positive sum. That is very, very basic economics. Power is zero-sum when we think of it as a percentage of "total power". It's irrational to think of wealth that way, because people care more about what a dollar can do for them than what percentage of world's wealth that dollar represents. With power, there is no such distinction. What your power can do for you is directly proportional to what percentage of "total power" you have. If there is a new actor and his power increases, everyone else's power (averaged out) decreases proportionally.