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Most societies resist a whole-society approach because it overturns social hierarchy: aristocrats lose to bureaucrats, villages lose to merchants and industry, and priests lose authority to scientists.
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Bureaucrats
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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"...okay, basically an aristocracy, to a bureaucracy, okay? A national bureaucracy, bureaucrats. So the power shifts from the aristocrats to the bureaucrats, okay? That's..."
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"the people with the most authority in your society are no longer priests, which has historically been true, but scientists, right? So this is..."
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"increased bureaucracy a power like bureaucrats having a lot of power"
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"...and where it's an AI surveillance state and where engineers and bureaucrats and technocrats basically run America to the benefit of the American people"
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"...that so that you the ultimate objective is to become a bureaucrat. That's what all Chinese people aspire to or aspirationally, meaning coming up."
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"You want to you want to be a bureaucrat one day?"
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"...they want to pass a civil service examination to become a bureaucrat. So then they can provide guarantees and protection to their family."
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"...right. You want to grow up. You want to be a bureaucrat. What is your impression of what China is, Canada's, US is?"
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"...China, as I mentioned, you want you want to be a bureaucrat."
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"...to be an entrepreneur. In China, they want to be a bureaucrat. What do you think? What do you think kids want to be..."
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"...France Kafka writes about this in his book, The Trial, where bureaucrats don't bother with criminals because it's a pain in the ass. So..."
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"...was an attack on USAID. It was attack on long term bureaucrats, et cetera. Even something as trivial as getting Jimmy Kimmel fired. I..."
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