Jiang's recurring decline model says prosperous, peaceful, stable civilizations tend toward overpopulation, elite overproduction, and financialization or debt slavery; these factors work together to end civilizations.
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Overpopulation
Jiang's recurring decline model says prosperous, peaceful, stable civilizations tend toward overpopulation, elite overproduction, and financialization or debt slavery; these factors work together to end civilizations.
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Jiang rejects Calhoun's overpopulation explanation as insufficient because the colony still had space when the fighting began.
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"...will tell you this is causation. It's because they had an overpopulation, so they were using too much of the land, and so it..."
"Okay? That's a causation. I... But some other scholars argue it is correlation, and the reason why is that Mayans are really famous for..."
"...B. Calhoun his argument is if there's so much food there's overpopulation. There's overpopulation then that creates conflict. And the conflict causes the rules..."
"...revolutions so what happened was that because of peace you have overpopulation you have economic growth okay that led to inequality that led to..."
"...they became very strong, very aggressive people. And again, because of overpopulation, because of climate change, these people are now forced to migrate to..."
"...around them. Okay? That's another superstructure. Now the third superstructure is overpopulation. Okay? Which is where we live in today. Okay? Where in China..."
"...but status power is a zero -sum game. So we have overpopulation we have too many people competing for too few status positions. You..."
"...because now we've entered into the end game where it is overpopulation too much wealth so too much inequality and so women are forced..."
"Okay? But because of climate change and overpopulation people are always constantly forced to move to new places. So agriculture was first up in..."
"...down. What happens? Well, first thing that happens is, because of overpopulation, there's too much stress on the environment, and so you have the..."
"...water shortage. Because of heat, because of economic sanctions, because of overpopulation, Tehran is having problems ensuring water supply to its people. You can..."
"...city what happens usually? Disease. Right? Disease. So because of the overpopulation in Athens they had the plague which killed one third of the..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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