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[–] Trevita17@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You need massive amounts of wealth to gain and maintain a monopoly on violence. So they did both.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Also if you possess a monopoly on violence wealth is not difficult to obtain

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

And once you have that wealth you NEED a monopoly on violence to maintain it, which requires more wealth, and so on.