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The read-aloud presents Dante's political lament as an attack on Italy's lawlessness, tyrants, imperial abandonment, and Florence's manic instability in laws, offices, and customs.
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Instability
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "have laid your hands upon the bit, Oh, German Albert, you who have abandoned that steed become recalcitrant and savage. You who should ride..."
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Compound interest makes debt eventually unpayable and produces debt slavery, including the promise that one's children will work for the creditor for free.
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Debt slavery creates instability because people at the bottom want to run away or rebel.
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Each solution to elite overproduction is itself unstable: land redistribution is revolution, civil war is war, and empire building is also war.
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A society near collapse is like a tower: the trigger can be riot, bad weather, earthquake, or fire, but the fundamental cause is prior instability from too many elites charging rent.
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Dave's model says a shrinking elite generation backing the regime against discontented supermajorities is a historically dangerous configuration.
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The host frames Trump's second coming as a major instability factor inside an already disintegrating global system and asks what political force he represents.
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"have laid your hands upon the bit, Oh, German Albert, you who have abandoned that steed become recalcitrant and savage. You who should ride..."
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"and if no pity for us moves you, may shame for your own repute move you to act. And if I am allowed, oh..."
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"You with your richest peace, judiciousness. You with your wealth. If I speak truly, facts won't prove me wrong. Compared to you, Athens and..."
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"The you know, the. The. Right. There is a very scary dynamic that's emerging, which rate is that you have a smaller and smaller..."
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"...who go into debt slavery. And this creates a lot of, instability in society. Because obviously, they either want to run away, or they,..."
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"Okay? Does it make sense? The other problem, is, elite overproduction. And the idea here, is, everyone wants to be, the renter. Right? Everyone..."
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"...matter how you do these things, you're always going to create instability. And, eventually, your empire, your society, will collapse. Does it make sense?..."
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"...charge rent. Right? And that creates pressure, on society. And this instability, means that your society, is no longer, sustainable. You're resilient. Resilient. And..."
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"It will not collapse, on its own. Something must hit it, for it, for it to collapse. But this one thing, could be anything...."
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"...or the second coming of Donald Trump definitely was a major instability factor in the already disintegrating global system. I wonder what does Donald..."
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"...is a pitfall for the United States in order to create instability in the Middle East so that America can maintain hegemony in the..."
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"...it matters. Imagine a world in which there's a lot of instability, when there's a lot of chaos, when the population is declining. Well,..."
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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