mercedo wrote today at 1:28 AM
ullangoo saidActually, I assume that war used to take place when a population outgrew its territory - you're right so far. When you can't grow enough food in your own fields, you want your neighbour's fields. Strikingly correct, that's what I mean.
As to nominal value, let me explain.
Nominal value is in short, money. Money means merely a relative value to substantial value, or resources, land, goods, etc., basically nominal value means almost nothing as opposed to substantial value. There's no meaning of possession of money itself, if they can buy something valuable, then money has value for the first time.
What are you going to do if you have enough money but you don't have enough resources and you can't buy them in ordinary commercial measures. Those who have enough money took them at war.
If money( nominal value, flow, price of company shares ) and resources (substantial value, raw material, end products, stock-not company shares- in general, ) strike a balance, war never occurs. But this gap has been increasing for these ten years.