Quote Originally Posted by Davor
It was just a joke... but if you want an explanation, ok, but a short one because this is not a place for such discussions. He is penalizing the rich for their choice of trying and working to be rich (i.e. building up economy and diplomacy), and rewarding the poor for their choice of wanting to be poor (i.e. having huge armies). It’s almost random, as I stated, because no egalitarian liberal policy can make a perfect distinction between choices and circumstances (i.e. having bad luck of just being in a less resourceful part of the world or whatever), but not completely random of course.
Ha! Of course you applying the human condition of "free will" to a computer game, whose processes are all defined and determined. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer because that is how the game mechanics work. In the real world the poor countries would have settled the foreign affairs and worked on getting rich. RTW Ai doesn't do that so we help them out.

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