Y'know, I first read the image, and it felt like "Oh, so Man1 isn't feeling great, so his friend Men2 tells him to come to have at his place to talk about it or just do something fun. That's a nice friendship".

That perception did not survived the rest of the text.

Glub glub.

You gained Brouzouf.

Considering how tired and sleepy I feel, they may be winning this one.

A long time ago, when I was a teenager and the first HoI was out, I was only playing Germany. Mostly because it was the only powerful country which felt somewhat manageable without wanting to cry in the convoy screen...

On a technical level, it would (probably) work. But I think it would feel terrible for the most people : the middle class would see it's savings melt away unless they lock a lot of it in investments, and people would have to reevaluate their value scale much more regularly than now. And the capital would likely not be "taxed" that in much in this setup.

Silicon itself is certainly not rare (even if the purification process is somewhat exigent on the feedstock), but modern chips uses a lot of rare-ish elements in their makeup (hafnium for mosfet gates, gold for chip/package connexion, etc...).

I honestly wonder if the person writing this is either a tankie or a nazbol.

...There were peace deals in HoI 1? 🤨

That, people, is why you should always put a basket below the head when you guillotine someone. It's unsanitary otherwise.