Economic Power Puns

To my knowledge, most economic powers have had massive reserves of natural resources; USA, USSR, British Empire, China, etcetera. My question is: how is did Japan become an economic power if they don't have such huge reserves of resources, perhaps besides manpower? Thank you in advance.

1. The Reach, they are the richest and most populated kingdom with a feared military that served under the Targaryen kings.

2. The Westerlands, they are most likely the second richest with a well-trained and disciplined army with ruthlessly effective leadership under the Lannisters.

3. The Vale, they aren't the largest kingdom but their knights are among the best fighters in the 7 kingdoms.

4. The North, they are the largest kingdom with a fierce military tradition but they are neither the richest or the most populated kingdom.

5. The Stormlands, they have capable military trained and lead by Baratheons even if they are neither the richest nor most populated kingdom.

6. The Riverlands, not the richest kingdom but have a decent military with several impressive castles including Riverrun.

7. Dorne, the show version of Dorne has neither vast natural resources nor a vast population. Military might in the show is rather ambiguous and they don't likely have a large army.

My analysis of the Iron Islands would be that they are skilled and experienced sailors and raiders with a formidable navy, but a low population and a reliance on raiding would make them ineffective in long wars.

Something I've found pretty cool about AOE4 coming to it from earlier games in the series, is that every civilization has its own economic bonus, and that it's not immediately obvious how each civilization compares to its competitors. So, I prepared a spreadsheet to calculate the economic power of each civilization, which you can view here. Briefly, here are the assumptions used in creating the sheet:

• My interest was in full-boomed economies, because I like playing 3v3/4v4 team-games, where games generally play out with a full-boom into 200/200 pop battles. Someone interested in early-game eco could modify this sheet easily for that purpose.
• The gather rates used were taken from the empirical in-game studies from this spreadsheet, with linear extrapolation for gather rates beyond +45%
• Abbasids take eco -> trade -> cultural wing, because that provides the max resources (with more res from traders compensating for more expensive techs in castle), practically it might still be better to go culture -> trade instead
• China is assumed to get an additional 5% of gathered resources as taxes in castle, and 10% in imperial (the max is 6.67% I think, but you also get taxes from unit production), I hadn't seen any good information as to how valuable taxes are. China also does not go Ming (effect on economy, +5% gather rate), and takes Yuan in imperial age (because generally it seems better to go Imp than to go Yuan)
• I haven't seen a practical test of enclosures, but I measured it myself as 960 gold/min from 60 farmers with perfectly placed farms.
• The analysis I've seen indicates that guild hall is roughly equivalent to +300 res/min (if saved long enough)
• HRE prelates are only used to buff farms (centrally located in your base) and gold (discrete gold veins present -> easier to micro and defend), not wood, which is likely to be much more exposed.
• Mongols do not use their improved versions of eco techs (+5% per tier), since I can't really figure out how you can ever afford 250x3 + 500x3 + 1000x3 stone when the eco build for Mongols is already spending almost all of your stone on silver tree traders. Steppe Redoubt (+50% gold income) is used for all gold miners (since I have them at only 10)
• Rus use wooden fortresses on all wood

I’m Morgan Harper, candidate for the United States Senate for Ohio. I am a consumer protection attorney and community organizer from Columbus. My politics is pretty straight forward: I fight corporate power to create economic freedom for everyone. To prove that, I don’t take corporate PAC money. My interest in crypto started back in 2011 as a Senior Advisor at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (founded by Elizabeth Warren) when pioneers in the industry where presenting the technology to us. I didn't take seriously then but I've started to really explore its potential to create economic power for people in places like Ohio.

I recently posted two threads on crypto you can see here:

1. https://twitter.com/mh4oh/status/1458064822772375565?s=20
2. https://twitter.com/mh4oh/status/1463219384776806402?s=20

My full bio is below.

I was born at The Ohio State University Hospital to a teenager who couldn’t raise me. I lived in a foster home just north of Columbus before being adopted and raised by a Columbus Public Schools teacher who had immigrated to Ohio from Trinidad. My mother, a single-mom, raised me and my brother while going through a bitter divorce that always had us on edge emotionally and financially. But my mother had a stable union job and so whatever energy she had left, she poured it into my education. I got scholarships to attend Columbus Academy and graduated from Tufts, Princeton and Stanford Law School. I then went to work in Washington under the Obama Administration and became a Senior Advisor at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. While I was there I went after big banks that were ripping off working people. We sued companies like Wells Fargo for opening fake bank accounts in their customers’ names.

In 2020 I ran for U.S.Congress and although we didn’t win (fuck Covid), we used the grassroots momentum to launch Columbus Stand Up! a community organization that mobilized volunteers across Central Ohio to go door-to-door to distribute 30K masks and drive hundreds of vulnerable people to their vaccine appointments.

While we did great work there one thing continued to stick with me. We know what it would take to protect communities from falling behind. We don’t have an ideas problem. We don’t have a policy problem. We have a politician problem.

Only two democrats have won statewide in Ohio in the last two

Cyber Polygon is a simulation that the WEF ran where they wargamed scenarios of hackers cyber attacking critical infrastructure and shutting down the internet, energy infrastructure, and financial infrastructure.

https://www.weforum.org/projects/cyber-polygon

There has been a lot of preprogramming to associate hackers with Russia. Lately there have been a lot of articles hypothesizing the ‘Russian hackers’ will attack the power grid and internet infrastructure, which is basically the same as the scenarios in Cyber Polygon.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-26/what-happens-when-russian-hackers-cyberattack-the-u-s-electric-power-grid

More preprogramming includes the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Pipeline_ransomware_attack

This will be the perfect opportunity for the globalists to ‘Build Back Better’.

When the internet is shutdown they can scrub all the information they don’t won’t you to have and leave.

When the energy is shutdown they can start a rationing system and implement carbon taxes as well as a carbon score that rewards people for using less energy.

And lastly while the financial system is shutdown they can reset the failing system, replace the worthless US Dollar with a central bank digital currency and probably some type of UBI. Not to mention that the price of commodities and especially oil/natural gas would skyrocket, meaning that you probably won’t be able to afford anything yourself and you will be a slave to the state for sustenance. Don’t be surprised if certain vaccinations are required to get this UBI.

And voila, that is approximately how the Great Reset will go down. You will have nothing but Klaus Schwab and his buddies will have everything.

Enjoy however long we have left of the old way of life, however corrupt it may be. Once the reset happens, things will get very real very quickly. Use this time to get ready. Get the things that you would get if you knew you couldn’t purchase anything and the lights were about to go out, because that is very likely the scenario we will be facing sometime soon.

Do you agree with this statement? Why? Why not?

I have a friend who is libertarian and is very much espoused to classical economics and especially Misses. I am more left leaning generally although I am continually trying to challenge my own thinking. One thing I am not as comfortable with is the lack of an account he seems to provide for the problem of monopolies or the power of institutions to determine value of entry level labor. His response to this is well, low level laborers could just quit and go work somewhere else so therefore the value of their labor is fair.

To me this is obviously not remotely practicable for lower lever workers who have limited resources to advocate for themselves. It's thus not reflective of how labor valuation actually happens in the market. Especially when industries are motivated to keep their valuation within similar ranges so as to maximize their profits. Without the resources to accurately participate as a negotiator at the table, it would seem that in fact the influence they have on their labor valuation not something equitably shared appropriately for there to be a fair valuation.

What would I be missing here in this analyses?