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Jiang’s description of leaders aligning with each other to exploit people once capital dominates their incentives.
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elite cartel
Jiang’s description of leaders aligning with each other to exploit people once capital dominates their incentives.
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When capital enters leadership, leaders stop seeking reputation and begin treating people as commodities, aligning with other leaders as cartels or elites.
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"...leader will align with other leaders. And they will become a cartel. Okay? Or an elite. And they will together exploit people. Okay? But..."
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"So at first, this is good. Okay? Now you're expanding the system. And then you reach a point of its maximum growth. But then..."
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"If you force them, they will revolt against you. So the system must collapse. Okay? So, the argument I'm trying to make to you..."
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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