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 Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
I suggest the incentives are too great. If you could violently take over a top economy, it would be hugely profitable. Rome made an empire out of that game.
Exactly!
But you can't. Not anymore. Companies that make up a top economy already have too great an incentive to let that happen. This is why I have posted several times that I think if all US nukes were auctioned, we would actually see the world eliminate all its nukes. The Chamber of Commerce and many other huge factions would have overwhelming incentive to eliminate that gargantuan risk. They would offer other holders of nukes terms they can't refuse. Not to repeat myself: capitalists like it when both parties win; states like it only when the other party loses.
Besides, it's not like Russia wants its nukes. It feels like it needs them because other states also have nukes. States have everything backwards. They create tension and violence merely by existing.
Also, taking over a top economy wouldn't be profitable. It would be a colossal sink. That sort of stuff was only true when everybody was a farmer and states could control all things by taxing farmers. It should be telling that rich organizations have zero desire to take over economies. Only states want to do that. Taking over economies destroys profits
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