Just because there’s no profit to seize doesn’t mean that goods won’t move from one person to the other if the person who wants to use the goods uses coercive force.
Right, this is exactly why I talk about goods moving bidirectionally. If someone is just straight-up seizing goods by force, then there’s no reason for goods to move back in the other direction. So, if the profit requires goods moving bidirectionally, then that indicates some relative advantage is involved somewhere.
Right, this is exactly why I talk about goods moving bidirectionally. If someone is just straight-up seizing goods by force, then there’s no reason for goods to move back in the other direction. So, if the profit requires goods moving bidirectionally, then that indicates some relative advantage is involved somewhere.
You need to go to another place to loot the place and that usually involves transporting personal, weapons and equipment.
Most wars where there’s no net profit but a lot of capital lost include some bidirectional flow of goods.