Venice built the greatest commercial empire in European history without a central bank, without industrial policy, and without a single economic development agency. While Byzantine bureaucrats strangled Constantinople with regulations and Frankish kings debased their currencies, Venetian merchants created wealth through voluntary exchange and sound money.
The lagoon dwellers who fled Attila's hordes in 452 AD had nothing but salt marshes and fish. No natural resources. No agricultural surplus. No inherited infrastructure. What they possessed was something far more valuable: distance from the coercive apparatus of mainland states. This geographic accident forced them to survive through trade rather than taxation, commerce rather than conquest.
Venice's constitution deliberately fragmented power to prevent any single authority from controlling trade. The Doge held ceremonial functions while competing merchant families checked each other's ambitions. No guild could monopolize an industry without rivals organizing alternative trading networks. When the state tried to restrict private commerce in 1297 with the Serrata del Maggior Consiglio, it marked the beginning of Venice's decline, not its peak.
The Venetian ducat maintained its gold content for over 500 years while every other European currency suffered debasement. Merchants could calculate profits across decades, plan investments across generations, and accumulate capital without worrying about monetary manipulation. Compare this to England, where Henry VIII cut silver content by 83% in just 20 years.
Voluntary association and sound money create abundance. Coercion creates poverty. Venice proved this. The same economic laws that enriched Venetian merchants still operate today, waiting for governments brave enough to get out of the way.
Золоту пальмову гілку у Каннах отримав фільм "Fjord" румунського режисера Крістіана Мунджіу. Пишуть, що в картині має місце безпрецедентна критика поточних лівацьких ідей. Треба глянути
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@VincentVegaMega@DmBondJ@anarchokoton Они не считают их "своими" и не собираются проявлять "политическую терпимость", просто они рады получить отмытые деньги. Намекну, что современные технологии позволяют это делать всем. Специалистов по легализации полно даже в ютубе
@Kroazier@sandrinio1986@NoContextHumans Have you ever been to Italy?
Or do you think that the Italian cheese from your store is the same as the same cheese in Italy?
YES
The guy was trolling and looking for a reaction, and both he and we got it. Everyone’s happy.
The video is about the tender attitude toward food in Italy—and this (to put it a bit philosophically) is the only thing on the planet that saves us from having to subsist on “protein” from the Matrix.
Of course, no one has the right to tell the guy what to do—it’s his food. But if you’re curious to sense the abstract “cultural matrix”—well, here, the waiter takes his wine away because it’s from the fridge, and putting ice in there would ruin it.
It wouldn’t hurt for us to appreciate what people understood about food 2,000 years ago. Maybe they’re wrong, but these guys in Italy are keepers 💪
@sandrinio1986@NoContextHumans Because they have the best food in the world and appreciate it. I live in Croatia and going to Trieste for food shopping every week. Worth it