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Jiang's recurring decline model says prosperous, peaceful, stable civilizations tend toward overpopulation, elite overproduction, and financialization or debt slavery; these factors work together to end civilizations.
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Civilizational Decline
Jiang's recurring decline model says prosperous, peaceful, stable civilizations tend toward overpopulation, elite overproduction, and financialization or debt slavery; these factors work together to end civilizations.
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"Same process with the Mayans where over time, because of their breakthroughs in agriculture, they reach a peak in about the year 780, 80..."
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"Okay? That's a causation. I... But some other scholars argue it is correlation, and the reason why is that Mayans are really famous for..."
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"...that this anxiety, which leads to capitalism, will ultimately lead to civilizational decline, okay? That's his main argument, okay? So again, he's not writing..."
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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