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Wealth tends to lower energy, openness, and cohesion because elites stop working, exploit others, become arrogant, refuse correction, and atomize society through corruption.
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Decadence
Wealth tends to lower energy, openness, and cohesion because elites stop working, exploit others, become arrogant, refuse correction, and atomize society through corruption.
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"they see themselves as a team are they willing to sacrifice themselves for each other are they a family okay so that's the idea..."
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"don't want to work anymore they rather just exploit the other people okay the people and because the people are being enslaved they're too..."
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"...said, America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence, vassalization in between. Okay? So he meant this as a joke. So..."
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"...to enjoy it because that leads to corruption. That leads to decadence. Acted powerfully against the spontaneous enjoyment of possessions. It restricted consumption, especially..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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