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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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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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"...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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"...empire, okay? So Venice can take its wealth and bribe imperial bureaucrats in Constantinople to give it trade preferences, okay? And Venice will also..."
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"...govern um um the empire but they also need to recruit bureaucrats okay so um they recruit these Persian bureaucrats because they're very effective..."
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"...religion, Zoroastrianism, where people can't lie, that's really good because these bureaucrats will now report real facts to the emperor, and that allows him..."
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"...but then you also have the local you also had the bureaucrats. Okay? You also had the royal representatives, so these were different factors..."
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"...Okay. Because remember, in a policy economy, in a centralized system, bureaucrats are in control. And bureaucrats control what is talked about. Okay. Or..."
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"What happen, what happened is that the bureaucrats will collude together to steal power from the king. Okay, the servant rules the king, okay?..."
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"But before you can imagine that they were interesting. But the bureaucrats took them and changed them into boring stories that they can now..."
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"...you're a king or if you're a priest if you're a bureaucrat do you prefer agricultural people or pastoral people? Obviously agriculture. Why? Because..."
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"Okay? And as I said also, bureaucrats don't want to do any work. Okay? So imagine if you're a secret society, how much you..."
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"...it doesn't matter who's at the top. What matters is which bureaucrats are able to work together to achieve their vision. This is Wernher..."
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