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He argues that elites have no real loyalty to people, state, or family; they do whatever accumulates power.
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Elite loyalty
He argues that elites have no real loyalty to people, state, or family; they do whatever accumulates power.
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Elite loyalties are fundamentally self-interested, which Jiang compresses as “the world is just a Game of Thrones.”
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"and have some but what more ok so usually between the upper nobility and the lower nobility and we see this throughout human history..."
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"you've seen a television show or read the book series Game of Thrones but the world is Game of Thrones and these people who..."
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"Too many elites. Too few status positions, and so they're competing against each other, and this drives a lot of conflict. So that's the..."
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