🧩 Triangle of Vices: Does the Elite Always Win?
When traders gathered in Lyon, Antwerp, and Seville, they were not seeking justice — they were seeking a bill of exchange. A piece of paper that would replace gold, simplify transactions, and eliminate the risk of being robbed on the way back.
Thus emerged the financial prototype of future currencies: gulden, pound, dollar. But the main thing — a mediator appeared. Someone who did not trade but accumulated. Someone who voluntarily accepted money for safekeeping. Someone who became the new priest of capital.
🎭 The elite are not those on stage. They are those who own the theater. And when states go under the roller of war, the elite simply changes the scenery.
The conclusions are yours.