rome or britain 2

ROME OR BRITAIN? 2

The Dutch pioneered the modern corporation, but the British perfected the modern economy with a central bank that was enabled, protected and enriched by the government.  When times are tough, and there is a war on, you don’t want some douche lick private bank  demanding gold as interest payment on your overdue loans.  Rather, during that war you want a bank that is more than willing to fall all over themselves extending the first loan, deferring interest payments and piling on MORE loans.  That is why successful empires are required to have central banks to survive and thrive.

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Did America NEED a central bank?  Of course not.  We had plenty of precious metal and we didn’t need to ship that overseas for trade items.  But if we wanted an empire, yes, we needed that central bank.  Don’t get me wrong, I detest the institutions ( both empire and central banks ).  BUT!  When the only rule of the jungle is eat food or be food, you pick the lesser of evils and that was empire ( here is a Fun Filled Fact. Prior to overseas empire in the Philippines, Hawaii, etcetera, we collected Guano Islands.  90+ of them ).

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Here is another Fun Filled Fact.  We had generally ignored those islands once the Fecal Treasure had been scraped off, but in 1935 your bestest buddy FDR sent an official on a double top secret mission to recolonize the waterless islands with “locals” ( Hawaiians were close enough ) and a heap of supplies.  A flag was flown, a small monument re-claiming the land, and any wayward Brits sent home.  These became radio beacons, refueling spots and the like in WWII.  Which OBVIOUSLY came as a total surprise to our glorious Krippled Kunt Kaiser.  

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Anyway, back to Britain.  They perfected the needed combination of private monopoly corporations doing the government and bankers bidding, bankers tying their survival to that of the state and the government whipping the population into line to do all threes peasant work.  If you were Doctor Evil, you couldn’t have come up with a better system.  Unless you perfected shark delivered laser weaponry.  But that would have just been a bonus.  Also, you know I have to add-“Capitalism”!  Yeah, that is what they really mean.  Since England perfected their empire building system.  Private banks, private profit, socialized costs.  Yeah, somebody has to pay the bills.

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We don’t want to accredit too much genius to the Brits empire.  There were ups and downs, learning periods, clueless flailing by inbred royalty, and all the rest.  But by and large in a big picture sort of way, the system cranked along in a generally upward trajectory.  Until it really didn’t any more after a few centuries.  I’m not enough of a hobbyist of the era so I couldn’t pinpoint the apex of the empire, but again, in general, both the Germans and Americans began to eclipse them economically and the handwriting was thereafter on the wall.

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And why were they eclipsed?  Generally, two other areas with less exploited coal reserves had stronger economies because of it.  The US was a strongly agrarian economy until the hydro powered Gott Damn Yankee Puritan Scum militarily defeated that economic power and ushered in an Industrial paradigm on the back of military conquest.  The same could generally be said of Prussia and the many Germanic states.  To this day we suffer from the Confederate defeat, but we also benefit from it in other ways.  It is a two sided coin.  But related to Britain, they suffered from using coal an extra century.

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It isn’t JUST about energy resources.  Russia had more energy than anyone.  But they didn’t have a central bank, nor much of a private corporate economy.  Along with the hardware ( ore and energy ), you need the software ( the best infrastructure using those ).  But energy does still matter a lot.  It can be a general yardstick.  When the US had excess energy, a fourteen year anti-guerrilla campaign in the Philippines does nothing to alter the national treasure.  When we have very little energy left, an eighteen year anti-guerrilla war drains us economically. 

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The First World War was kind to nobody except the US, which profited off the other sides economically, then stepped in when their corpses barely could stand upright and helped itself to the spoils.  But the end of the war did touch each country differently.  Russia was considerably weakened politically, but retained so many resources it was easily able to build a new empire.  It hadn’t used much if any building an Industrial economy, yet.  Germany still had decades worth of coal to rebuild, after it blew off reparations.  Britain though, was almost the weakest.

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Italy didn’t count.  Not then, not prior consolidating and not twenty years later.  They will never matter because Rome used all their soil fertility, and they have few energy or ore supplies.  The French didn’t have as extended or draining of an empire.  It returned less, but it demanded less as well.  Even with South Africa swelling the treasury with gold fifteen years previously, the First World War bankrupted Britain.  And that was mainly because she had already used up her energy stockpile, by and large.  As Rome discovered, money doesn’t help do anything but pad the demise when energy is lacking.

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Despite England producing a lot of hobbyist scholars studying Rome, nothing could have been sufficient warning for the new empire.  Because empires run one way.  Extraction and use.  By definition, that created the empire and sustained it.  Which also kills it.  You can’t stop using energy and conserve it, or you lose your empire a lot sooner.  By using up all your energy, which crashes your empire, you were able to stay in power just a little bit longer.  England’s fate was sealed long before the Great War.  All empires are the same in their growth and death. 

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