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Trigs
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This is maybe an example of economies of scarcity that @abundance keeps teaching us about. It's more profitable for businessmen to lead countries into conflict that creates more scarcity that they have more resulting influence over. It's not how many tokens you have, but % of mcap, right? Encouraging collaboration that produces abundance only dilutes their influence, power, and wealth when your at the scale of these elite class of decision makers. This is why markets driven by scarcity trend towards collusion and capture by private interests instead of serving the public good.
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Mike | Abundance 🌟
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True. Though I usually look less at individual players and more at how the game is designed. We ("The West") set up a system in place post WWII that on the surface is supposed to be rule-based and equitable, but in reality is designed to benefit our interests. Russia and China - understandably - want to either extricate themselves from this system (autarky) or use it in their favor (trade dominance). The problem is that this system is not very stable. We're not too far from recreating the pre-World War I dynamics where any move by major or minor players can lead to a great power war. This is extremely dangerous. A lot of this comes from the need by major powers to control energy resources, rare minerals, etc. But more generally it's because the system is scarcity driven - and scarcity-based systems are inherently adversarial. I wrote something about that in the Abundance Economy:
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