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Sargon begins the pattern of professional armies by replacing seasonal farmer-soldiers with full-time soldiers supported by taxes.
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Taxes
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Jiang explains IVC walls as tools of economic administration rather than war: customs houses collected tolls and taxes from traders entering the city.
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In the palace economy, farmers bring wealth to the palace, the king redistributes it, and the king takes a cut, making taxes a form of renting behavior.
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Bad weather makes the palace economy collapse because elites still demand their cut instead of sharing sacrifice, creating strain and internal revolt.
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Jiang says empire exploits the people who pay taxes, fight wars, and absorb migration shocks while benefiting a narrow elite.
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Jiang argues that a Venezuela invasion would rebound domestically because Americans would revolt against the taxes, sacrifices, and forever-war burdens required to sustain such occupations.
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"...to defend this empire. It's the middle class that's paying the taxes for the military industrial complex, which is one of the most corrupt..."
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"So that's a cost of empire. So you think it's a great thing to have an empire, but the vast majority of people, 99..."
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"...make these sacrifices. They're the ones who have to pay these taxes to fund these forever wars."
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"Their goal is not to conquer the world. Their goal is to change the world for the better. As demanded by the gods. Does..."
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"...these cities. Why are there walls? Can anyone guess? Okay. Customs. Taxes. Okay? Meaning this is, again, a value -added, adding process center. And..."
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"So, let's look at a very specific example, of red seeking behavior. My city in Greece. All right? My city in Greece. So, my..."
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"...this is called, renting behavior. Where, I'm, where, you're basically, paying taxes. Okay? Does it make sense? Okay? Now, this is fine, when, things..."
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"maybe taxes taxes can you explain well um you pay taxes and in return the state promise you that you're safe and yeah you..."
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"...In the modern age, you have to pay a lot of taxes, and the taxes go towards public works. And you can donate to..."
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"...protesting corruption in the government. I can understand if they're protesting taxes, right? But the fact that you have these rich people who've bought..."
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"...to make these changes. They're not gonna want to pay more taxes or give up their million -dollar mentions so that the world can..."
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"...don't want to study? You don't want to work and pay taxes? Well, let's have an AI in your head, a pirate ship in..."
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