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For most of human history, wealth was presumed to be finite.

Consider a boy on a playground with 10 marbles.

How can he get more?

There is only one possibility.

He has to take someone else's marbles.

Until relatively recently, wealth was mostly in land.

And the only way to get more land was to take it.

Conquest was the natural mode of human acquisition.

And that's how most countries evolved and grew through force and conquest.

The American Revolution was motivated in large part by resistance to this old way of doing things.

To put it mildly, the colonists didn't like the idea that the English crown could take

their money or property without their consent.

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