Chapter 188: Stocks and Capitalism (6)
Someone else’s misfortune is my happiness.
It’s the kind of thing only human trash would say, but it is also a truth that runs through the entire history of the world.
Take the Age of Exploration, for example. Spain and Portugal fought each other with their invincible fleets, causing chaos, and in the end, they destroyed themselves.
Then, the Netherlands quickly set up the East India Company, followed by England taking over.
That beautiful principle was at play.
“Sebastian, how are other guilds or nobles reacting to this situation?”
Sebastian chuckled when he heard my words and shrugged his shoulders.
“Some of the savvy merchant families have started slowly selling off land and buildings, predicting a drop in prices. However, the nobles and other merchants still haven’t changed their belief that land and buildings will always rise in value.”
Even in the Toscanian Empire, just 100 years ago, wars were fought almost like duels.
Ambushes were considered cowardly, so they would instead select knights to fight one-on-one in honorable duels before the war.
If I told someone from that era about surprise attacks being allowed in modern warfare?
Would they be able to accept the change in common sense?