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A collapse mechanism in which the number of people who believe they deserve power exceeds the finite amount of power available.
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overproduction of elites
A collapse mechanism in which the number of people who believe they deserve power exceeds the finite amount of power available.
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"...idea that he discovered. Is something called the overproduction of the elites. Okay? Overproduction of the elite. And this concept explains why societies collapse...."
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"...there are too many of them, this internal struggle of the elites ultimately leads to social collapse. Okay? So, the most famous example is..."
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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