Question: If Smaug had invested the gold the moment he got it, how much would he have had when he was killed?
And that's the main reason all the socialist ploys to get rich by plundering the rich always bring the countries that adopt them to financial ruin: you can't get rich by killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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That's why the sensible thing to do is farm them. Create a stable pipeline of golden geese from nest box to table then have all the gold and goose meat you can eat.
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Farming dwarves, elves, humans and hobbits? In other words, Government. Tolkien tells the founding myth used by the farmers to justify their farming: "Look, if you don't obey, it be dragons, orcs and dark lords." — exactly what a dark lord would say.
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