>>61117597
the empire runs on uninterrupted accounting
as long as the spreadsheet lives, the gods of capital eat

Europe burned its rich every century
France: Revolution, Napoleonic wars, repeated monetary resets.
Germany: reset by war 1918, 1923, 1945 three total wealth annihilations.
Russia: reset by Mongols -> Tsar Bolshevik Soviet Oligarch -> perpetual reset loop.

China: dynastic collapse, civil war, Communist confiscation, then partial reset again in the 80s.

each time the compounding died. a few survivors crawled out,dodging confiscations, smuggling gold, escaping wars, praying their assets wouldn’t vanish overnight. and across the ocean, an average American just dollar-cost-averaged into index funds, paid his mortgage, and retired with $5 million in assets. no cunning, no luck, no ideology just existing inside the one jurisdiction that never reset.
Contrast that with an Afghan merchant who built a business through the 80s, 90s, and 2000s survived coups, civil war, invasions, currency collapses, and regime changes every 5-10 years..