Powerful line of thought from #[0]

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We put laws in place — the Magna Carta, Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc. — to essentially protect us, the individuals, from the state. By doing that, the states that did that, had more productivity. The productivity increases in these states with strong laws for the individuals because now people can act as freely as they can, and conduct that “good” or “moral” work you just explained, the collaborative and coordinated trade, because of property rights, and the assurances those rights afford individuals giving them the confidence and capability with functioning money to take action, they can act and they can create more wealth that would then flow into these lawful societies, the positive sum results you mentioned earlier are then yielded.

Conversely, authoritarian governments collect all the wealth and don’t allow for strong property rights, and those societies suffer because of this lack of property rights that afforded individuals the assurances of self interested cooperative and collaborative human action. So they live in zero sum societies.

So when you had rule of law and rights to individuals, you had faster growth economies, but over time, because money is superordinate to that process, people with money change the laws, and so over time you lose the laws that protected those people, because the only way that you can fight the law is to have enough money to lobby and everything else, so those laws get whittled away over time, and the laws no longer protect the people at the bottom, those that are generating the positive sum growth, the laws then instead protect the people at the top, those that reinforce the zero sum society.

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https://simplybitcoin.substack.com/p/money-and-power-a-fresh-perspective?r=1ltfo9