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Giving the Apaches cattle in 1917 succeeded where military force had failed because the valuable assets created a zero-sum battle over resources between lineages, generating the internal competition necessary to produce a hierarchy of power over the disbursement of resources and property.

As Nevins explained, the introduction of the cattle created "a zero-sum battle over resources between lineages".26 The valuable assets created the internal competition necessary to generate a hierarchy of power over disbursement of resources and property.

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021), The Apaches vs. Bitcoin, p. 21
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

• introduction of divisible valuable assets into a decentralized group

mechanismsupport: evidencedfailure: Asset-induced centralizationfamily: recentralization-driftrisk-and-incentivesdecentralizationeconomics

• extended_by kaal:claim:3782203-024 If the decentralized economy is constructed as a zero-sum game, cooperation becomes impossible because the onl...

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