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The core social problem Jiang says drives bureaucratic systems toward hidden networks that can coordinate across compartmentalized departments.
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coordination problem
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Jiang argues that mass societies inevitably create coordination problems, bureaucracies become too compartmentalized, and secret societies emerge as a way for noble families to preserve control over the bureaucracy.
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The third and most important structural problem is bureaucratization, because siloed and indifferent bureaucracies cannot coordinate effectively across departments.
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"Because wherever you have a mass society, you always have a coordination problem. So, when you have, so, the way to coordinate is a..."
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"...to work for a cultural cohesive cause. That's the second major problem. The third major problem, which is the most major problem is the..."
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The interview opens with leaked Epstein emails and ends with Ukraine, but Jiang's through-line never changes: public politics is wrestling, elite trust is held together by blackmail, and the American empire now looks most...
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