Question about fundamental societal construction

[a500lbgorilla]

Remember there was that quote about Europe pre the world wars where someone said "No one would ever disturb this set up because we're all making too much money!" (I'm recalling this from one of the Dan Carlin podcasts).

[wufwugy]

Remember there was that quote about Europe pre the world wars where someone said "No one would ever disturb this set up because we're all making too much money!" (I'm recalling this from one of the Dan Carlin podcasts).

But they weren't making too much money. The health of capital pre-WW1 was nothing like it is today.

WW1 was caused primarily by dysfunctional state policy (secret alliances). WW2 was caused primarily by people not making any money (mostly Germans).


Look at Russia. Western militaries have done a big fat nothing against Russia's aggression, yet today Putin's regime is in a hell-place and its aggression is almost entirely subdued. All because of economics. If Putin wanted to, he could full speed ahead try to take over Europe, yet even if no state-backed military intervened even slightly, he would get utterly crushed and his regime would crumble

The monopoly on violence is doing nothing to stop violence