"70% of the remaining smaller pie of violence, that's still an improvement."
What leads you to believe that the pie is smaller than it was without money? I have never seen any kind of statistics like "hunter gatherers had more wars". How you you even formulate the null hypothesis for this?
I'm not claiming that I can back up that statistic, just pointing out that the state of something being an issue in the status quo doesn't mean it couldn't have been a net advantage over what it replaced.
What leads you to believe that the pie is smaller than it was without money? I have never seen any kind of statistics like "hunter gatherers had more wars". How you you even formulate the null hypothesis for this?