Claims / C-8BP87VW3J6
Conjecture
Conquest stopped paying because wealth stopped being seizable. Part I: as knowledge expanded, the source of wealth underwent an ephemeralisation, moving from physical assets like mines, oil wells and resources to the pools of knowledge and knowhow held within large social groupings and complex industries. Those are far harder to seize, being the emergent product of countless experts embedded in industrial groupings. So war grows costlier while the rewards of victory decline, and Part I supplies its own test: war today is mostly confined to regions where wealth is still primarily embodied in physical assets.
Evidence 1 passage
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transitioning from physical assets like mines, oil wells, and resources to the pools of knowledge and knowhow contained within large social groupings and complex industries (more on this later). These sources of wealth are much more difficult to seize as they are the emergent product of the knowledge and expertise of c
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