History of the Gun was pretty good, but I don’t really look for good history on the History channel anymore. Now the shows are more like the covers of cheap fiction books. On the plus side, that may appeal to someone who otherwise would not have considered the subject and then lead them to learn more from a better quality source. Like Wikipedia.[:D]
Real wealth and real monetary value is created and/or acquired ONLY when the members of a family (or a nation, tribe, city-state, etc.) plant, grow and/or harvest something of commercial value from the earth, extract something of commercial value from the earth, provide professional services (medical, legal, dental, engineering, architecture, accounting, land surveying, technology, etc.) to others outside of that family, and/or manufactures or constructs something of commercial value that is consumable (or permanently useful for income or rent) and then SELLS, LEASES OR RENTS these items and/or services to parties outside of their family, IN RETURN FOR A NET TRANSFER OF GOLD, CURRENCY OR COMMODITIES from other parties outside of their family into their own family. The members of that family can reflect their real wealth with the accumulation of grain, gold, cattle, jewels, land, buildings, commodities and/or other marketable products for reserve use in times of emergency and/or also to raise the standard of living for the members of that family. US government policies encouraged the US companies to cease making things for US consumption and export in order to generate national wealth, and instead to import these consumer items in exchange for titles to existing US wealth such as privately owned land, hotels, farms, businesses, casinos and other assets located in the USA that were created by previous generations of US citizens transferred to the foreign nations that elected to industrialize and generate wealth by making and exporting consumer items to the USA.
Agreed. My TV is on sporadically, with the exception of watching the current Olympic games–I am a speed skating and biathalon fan.