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The same imperial advantages become long-term weaknesses: mass creates inequality and debt, organization creates rent-seeking elites and elite overproduction, and expendability creates hubris.
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Imperial Decline
The same imperial advantages become long-term weaknesses: mass creates inequality and debt, organization creates rent-seeking elites and elite overproduction, and expendability creates hubris.
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Jiang defines Spanish imperial decline as the result of wealth-driven laziness, insularity, hubris, overextension, war spending, and corruption.
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"Okay? So these are the three major advantages of an empire. And in theory, because of these advantages, an empire should be invincible and..."
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"And this often leads to debt and slavery. And as a result, your people become complacent, lazy, indifferent. They're competing against each other. They..."
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"forces the mass to go into slavery, to go into debt, which is what's happening in America today. The problem with this is that..."
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"Okay? So another saying this is that an empire over time becomes insular. They don't care about what happens outside the world. All they..."
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"So now you have this divergence where, okay, you have the Spanish empire, and because of their wealth, they became, um, lazy, insular, and..."
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"...Right. But, again, it's because we are in a period of imperial decline. And, in the time of imperial decline, history really ramps up,..."
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"...So what America is doing right now fits into the classical imperial decline pattern."
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