Yeah, but we didn't help them fall off it.
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Paths of Civilization II: Paths of Industrialization
We didn't start the fire! We were just smoking.
Next to the ammo dump!
But it was the Sketch who build the smoking spot right next to their ammo dump and then kept pushing cigars into our hands! (Continuously asked us to lower food prizes).
If the Sketch were running their economy as hot as it sounds like, I don't think they had much of a choice. Their rampant laissez faire capitalism would have taken a look at the last century and concluded that "we can rely on the assumption that significant untapped markets will open up or be created every decade", and now they HAVE to sell guns even when its not necessarily in their best interest long term because they're running the boiler white hot and its going to blow the moment ANYTHING changes.
Yeah, we've been basically making it so that theres an artificial safety net under every crash so they keep climbing higher and higher.
...and the funny part is their industry captains are likely to encourage such a thing if they think they can pull their personal assets out faster than their rivals and then emerge from the ashes a winner.
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Don't forget all the stockbrokers getting the middle class folks to invest into the industries on margin. When this crash comes, the Sketch are going to be left without a middle class or any banks outside the central one.
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Do they even HAVE a central bank?
Laissez faire capitalism says that private industries can take care of it, with the old nobility backing the private banks with their land's value as the base deposit.
Depends on how bad it gets. They might yet swing back(after all the skills are there, just broke, so thats a large pool of skilled labor that can be employed for peanuts in the aftermath), or they might go crazy and start up a scottish communist revolution.
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Going to be lazy and just quote wikipedia here.
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I wonder if we could import some of that skilled labor pool, when the crash happens.
I'm not sure we'll come out of it smelling of roses either. A crash right now could very easily fuck up our SoL. Even if it doesn't dirsrupt our sources of income, which it could, we might find that foreign goods on which our people have come to rely aren't there to buy anymore.
When the crash opens we're going to be stacking sandbags. We got resistance, but we aren't going to have a whole lot of luxury over the doom prophets taking to the streets.
And then, the sea people came, looting all ports across the land, pushing ever inward, getting ever more daring, and as more nations' coasts were abandoned, those navies too became part of the sea people, propagating the cycle ever onwards, until the entire world was consumed.
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To help psyche myself up, I will say that you made a major stride forward in researching the optical peculiarities in Hiding in the Rainbow.
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Goodbye industrial revolution.
HELLO MAGITECH REVOLUTION!
Hopefully.
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You will require the Industrial Revolution to fully take advantage of the situation.
Probably.
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Hitting it out of the park with these as usual, Yama0.Based on some earlier discussion I kinda found funny.
Based on some earlier discussion I kinda found funny.
The cannon should be on fire.
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A question we ought to ask ourselves about the Cahok Confederacy: Are we merely the supporting character? Sort of like the French allies in the American revolution.
I don't really know what this is supposed to be saying or how to relates to the thread but GODDAMN I AM FEELING IT!
I presume it means that the Cahok are kicking asses.
I think I'm goddamn feeling that too.