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Spanish silver wealth quickly creates the same pathology Jiang has been tracking: wealth makes a society lazy, insular, arrogant, and dependent on others' labor.
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Spanish silver wealth quickly creates the same pathology Jiang has been tracking: wealth makes a society lazy, insular, arrogant, and dependent on others' labor.
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The quoted line that silver answers everything makes money a spiritual as well as practical medium.
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The Spanish and Portuguese division of the world gave Spain the wealthier end of the bargain: Mexico, Central America, and much of South America, with gold and silver that rapidly enriched Spain.
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"...up these colonies all around South America. And a lot of silver was now being transported back to Spain. And so overnight, Spain became..."
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"To provide textiles, luxury goods to Spain, all right? So how this was accomplished was first, industry. So the Spanish, because they were so..."
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"It is written that silver answers everything. It is not even possible to draw near God without money. Okay?"
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"...South America. And there's a lot of gold, a lot of silver, within these regions. And as a result, Spain became very wealthy."
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"Okay? Eventually, the British and the French will get involved as well. But because South America and Central America were already taken by the..."
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"...so the idea cloud seeding you shoot up a chemical called silver iodide into clouds, forcing it to rain. When you do that, well,..."
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"...All right, quick break here, because if you're buying gold or silver the normal way, you're probably overpaying by a lot."
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"...bed, start to finish. I gave it ivory inlays, gold and silver fittings, gaps across it, oxide gleaming red. There's our secret sign, I..."
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"...the third thing that happened was piracy, okay? So all this silver was being transported from the New World back to Spain. And what..."
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"...case because Spain is extracting resources from the new world primarily silver okay the French are also engaged in trade as well so there..."
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"...the same idea was... The opium went into China, and then silver and money went back to England, okay? And then, this money was..."
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"...a huge population and there was a lot of mineral wealth, silver and gold. And so what they could do was they could go..."
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