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Capital is best understood as a mechanism for extracting human attention and focus, not merely as money or stored wealth.
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Merchant oligarchies use banking, navy/trade control, and diplomacy/intelligence to extract energy across time and space.
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Merchant oligarchies use banking, navy/trade control, and diplomacy/intelligence to extract energy across time and space.
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"Today we discuss the idea of capital. Now, you may have learned in economics class that capital means money or wealth. What I want..."
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"They've always been controlled by private interests. They're still controlled by private interests today. Okay? And the way they use private interests. What they..."
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"Now, the idea of diplomacy is you don't want to fight. You don't want to fight wars because your population is very limited. What..."
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