I suppose you could say that about any organization of society lol

They barely handle it now. Lotta engineering in fuel delivery.

> a flammable solvent.

Gasoline has weird properties as both. It has a strange set of heats of ignition.

Not to the ones who will be the winners of anarcho capitalism.

False dilemma. The choice is not between big government regulation on one hand, and criminal empires on the other. There are many points in between these two extremes.

If you think the problem with the war on drugs is "oh no you can't do drugs legally" you need to learn about the war on drugs

Unless he's still alive it doesn't count.

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Actually if you read the research OP posted there are parallels drawn between sudden windfall of wealth due to natural resources with the existence of both mafia and corrupted goverments.

The issue seems to be not about "goverment" by definition, but the fact that the influx of wealth in an already weakend state will spawn mafiesque organisations, either in the form of full blown criminal organistions and/or corrupted states

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Different city, great book though.

I also recommend The Lost City of Z for anyone who is interested in modern jungle exploration.

We've almost certainly only scratched the surface of ancient civs across the world.

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No, "limey" was in use for English sailors and more generally for English men everywhere in the anglosphere since the 19th century.

WWII GIs sometimes referred to English troops as limeys because they had been called that for the last 100 years. They more often called English troops Tommys.

My dog abhors vacuums too.

that was the end of ancient egypt actually basically it all ended when the ptolemy and romans invaded and then after that it was all invasion after invasion no self rule for 2500 years until really really recently in 1954 where egyptians got self rule on their country again from the last british invasion

and idk if i can call it a mix of cultures since the nile valley has always been mostly egyptians with only a minority of foreigners that came to live there even if there was invasions it was only the ruling class that changed so

I think the above comment is talking about the resource curse, where governments essentially focused on supporting and taxing one industry to the detriment of other industries. Countries with resource curse historically have high levels of corruption and frequently poor government services since the main goal of government is rent collection. Example include Nigeria, Mexico 20 years ago, Angola, Iraq and some other nations.

It makes sense though I don't know enough of the history to judge .

A commodity comes expensive and rare its going to create a blackmarket.

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thank you very much this is all I wanted i really appreciate it

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I also wondered at the use of the word, "just" in the title. It implies some common assumption that he survived many assassinations due to garlic, but that isn't alluded to in the article.

Verdict: bad title. The editor should be poisoned.

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