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A leader class whose status and advantages pass to children, offered by the church as an attractive bargain to temporary barbarian leaders.
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hereditary elite
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...just the Roman Empire, it's all empires. Eventually they produce an elite that is hereditary, which is corrupt, which is rent -seeking. So the..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...just the Roman Empire, it's all empires. Eventually they produce an elite that is hereditary, which is corrupt, which is rent -seeking. So the..."
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The church made itself attractive to barbarian elites by converting temporary leaders into hereditary elites whose status could pass to their children.
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Jiang generalizes that all empires eventually produce hereditary, corrupt, rent-seeking elites that turn inward and prey on their own populations after external conquest is complete.
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"...just the Roman Empire, it's all empires. Eventually they produce an elite that is hereditary, which is corrupt, which is rent -seeking. So the..."
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"...new people, it recognizes that it must first co -op the elite, okay? Now, barbarians do not, they do not have, or most barbarians..."
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"...can make these leaders, who again are only temporary, into a hereditary elite, meaning their advantages and social status will pass on to their..."
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"...you can use more farmland okay you can now have a hereditary elite and so at the time we But these people can focus..."
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"...mother goddess she has a consort and so they establish a hereditary elite. But this hereditary elite makes people unhappy with the system. So..."
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"...let me explain to you this theory slowly. Okay? All right. Elite overproduction. All right. All right. Okay. That's fine. All right. So, in..."
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