Insanely great, great space topography, and they even have a great coffee shop.
What’s actually super interesting is that if you understand political upheaval from an economic lens, things actually make more sense. For example, I think a lot of people are very very confused on how and why the Khmer Rouge took over And essentially mass occurred like 95% of the population. What’s even more disturbing is a lot of the Khmer rogue soldiers are like nine-year-old, 10-year-old, 12-year-old boys and kids, even like 14-year-old girls running around with AK-47, and rocket launchers.
Can you imagine if you’re like some sort of like white Protestant, American soldier who comes in, and there’s like a 12-year-old girl with a rocket launcher about to shoot you, what do you do? Or even worse, an eight-year-old kid with a grenade about to throw at you what do you do? Honestly all this worst stuff is insanely horrific.
Anyways it looks like the truth is… The rise of pol pot and the Khmer rogue Is probably because America was bombing the crap out of Cambodia, because a lot of the Vietnamese soldiers were using Cambodia as a supply line. Richard Nixon might have been indirectly responsible.
Economic sovereignty
So one thing that that’s actually super inspiring to me about Cambodia Phnom Penh BKK1–> Is how stable the Khmer riel is. My personal theory is that it is effectively pegged to the US dollar, and I’m also sure that the central bank of Cambodia holds a large reserve of US dollars and its treasury.
Don’t store your value in rice
Another fascinating economic thought, essentially the fall of the encore, and what empire was because they did not have a monetary money system. Everything was backed by rice barter , which made the economy very very difficult to sustain itself,. For example, can you imagine… You’re trying to defend yourself against all these invaders, and your royal treasury is like tons of white rice, which spoils. Let us say you’re trying to hire some sort of Portuguese or Chinese mercenaries, it is very very difficult to lug bags of rice with auction, to pay them… Coins gold coins are easier.
I also wonder… If the dominance of the Roman Empire was because at least for a few hundred years, they had a stable monetary system. Backed by real gold.