There's a lot of Praxis you can take away from Nassau and (earlier) Tortuga about how to make a bunch of over-sexed, greedy, uneducated people traumatised by violence and oppression behave shockingly well.
Doesn't mean pirates were sweetness and light, they did kill people, and their economy was loot, not labour. But they did ok, given the hand they had.
CGP Grey making pirates sound like they were running some sort of anarchist commune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YFeE1eDlD0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0fAznO1wA8
There's a lot of Praxis you can take away from Nassau and (earlier) Tortuga about how to make a bunch of over-sexed, greedy, uneducated people traumatised by violence and oppression behave shockingly well.
Doesn't mean pirates were sweetness and light, they did kill people, and their economy was loot, not labour. But they did ok, given the hand they had.
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