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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
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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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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"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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"...the bully. Maybe it is possible not to pay these stupid taxes. And so they start talking to him secretly."
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"Now, Dubai, now Oman, Iran, Kuwait, have to pay taxes to Iran. Now Iran, the new kid, is now the bully of the Middle..."
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"...who move to Dubai because it's clean. You don't pay any taxes. You make a lot of money. And there are great restaurants. And..."
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"...vote to redistribute wealth, right? To make the rich pay more taxes."
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"...and so this this the spanish want the dutch pay more taxes and the dutch want to be more independent so this starts a..."
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"...They didn't commit any crime, they're not on welfare, they pay taxes, they contribute to the community, but because of this, two things have..."
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"...they'll go wherever they need to in order to pay less taxes, in order to avoid the social conflict created by their policy. In..."
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"...around and encouraging Greeks under the Persian rule to not pay taxes. Greeks do not like to pay taxes. It's still true even today...."
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