The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoThere is a 3rd choicemedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square54linkfedilinkarrow-up1541arrow-down120file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days agoYeah the concept of coins was still a very political topic at the time. They were a relatively recent invention that completely changed how society interacted
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days ago… What? No they weren’t Anyways, it’s not about coins, it’s about taxes. Taxes can be collected in the form of currency or in bulk goods If you don’t have any coins or bulk storage, your community is not economically productive for whoever owns the territory. There’s nothing to take But infrastructure must me maintained anyways, an empire lives and dies on it’s roads
Yeah the concept of coins was still a very political topic at the time. They were a relatively recent invention that completely changed how society interacted
… What? No they weren’t
Anyways, it’s not about coins, it’s about taxes. Taxes can be collected in the form of currency or in bulk goods
If you don’t have any coins or bulk storage, your community is not economically productive for whoever owns the territory. There’s nothing to take
But infrastructure must me maintained anyways, an empire lives and dies on it’s roads