The temptation for things like military conquest begins to rise.

If you look back at sort of Hitler's calculus in the 1930s, you know, a lot of this desire

for Laban's realm and kind of conquering parts of that what was done in the Russian, you know,

the Soviet Union was, you know, getting key resources and commodities for the German people

that they couldn't get through other means. So I do think that there are, there's two very, very

different futures that we could be headed toward in this block-based economy, and I certainly hope

we're in the former rather than the latter.

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