Merchants

"...then you have to go from agriculture to industry. Who? The merchants. So now you have to give the merchants, the capitalists, tradespeople, more..."

"the people with the most authority in your society are no longer priests, which has historically been true, but scientists, right? So this is..."

"...wealth how do you keep the wealth secure, right? You're a merchant, you're being very wealthy through trade by going to East Indies and..."

"...to go fight a war, you borrow money from bankers and merchants, right? The problem, though, is that one you could lose the war...."

"...Does that make sense? All right? So, now, if you're a merchant, you feel safe. I cannot put my money in the Bank of..."

"...always led by the middle class or the aspirational class. Usually merchants, right? Merchants. Because they were discriminated heavily in society, but they had..."

"...homeland. And the Jews know about Khazaria because they're traders, they're merchants. They're part of the diaspora. So information is spreading about Khazaria and..."

"...as officials, they'll work as artisans, they'll work as trade spewers, merchants. And so they're scattered around the Hellenistic world. And as we discussed,..."

"...There's a Jewish diaspora, right? So the Jews make very good merchants because they're able to access different networks around the world. That's very..."

"...simplify it okay again it is a parable so there's a merchant he has the world's most valuable pearl and he wants to uh..."

"...four places are special. They are special because they are all merchant oligarchies, okay? Merchant oligarchies, meaning that they are controlled by private interests...."

"...then all four, what's really important is that if you're a merchant oligarchy, you're actually controlled by a secret society. Not a king, but..."