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Most societies resist a whole-society approach because it overturns social hierarchy: aristocrats lose to bureaucrats, villages lose to merchants and industry, and priests lose authority to scientists.
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Elite Resistance
Most societies resist a whole-society approach because it overturns social hierarchy: aristocrats lose to bureaucrats, villages lose to merchants and industry, and priests lose authority to scientists.
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The rich opposed even compensated reform because piety, liberty, and republica had come to mean that the existing hierarchy must not be challenged by the poor.
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"Now, the question then is, well, okay, the logic here makes sense, but why is it that it's Europe that uses a whole society..."
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"the people with the most authority in your society are no longer priests, which has historically been true, but scientists, right? So this is..."
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"Does that make sense? The rich won't be kicked out of the land they're illegally occupying. They'll be compensated for it. Okay? So this..."
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