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Ep. 772: Wake Up and Think with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Role of Government in Civilized Commerce

Government is an instrument of pre-civilization, it's an instrument of brute force. All modern civilized commerce is based on win-win. I'll give you something, you give me something. It's got to be win-win or nobody would do the deal. But in government, in pre-civilized order, it works entirely differently. There is no win-win, it has always been win-lose,. The government takes, the government conquers throughout history. That's the way it always has been.

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