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Elite overproduction is Jiang's Turchin-linked concept for collapse caused by too many elites fighting over limited positions of status and power.
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Peter Turchin
Jiang uses Peter Turchin's elite overproduction to describe the growth of too many elites competing for too little status in an unequal Rome.
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Jiang uses Peter Turchin's elite overproduction to describe the growth of too many elites competing for too little status in an unequal Rome.
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Peter Turchin's elite overproduction is introduced as a theory that argues against the usual Marx-derived model of collapse by bottom-up worker rebellion.
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Turchin's elite-overproduction model, as Jiang presents it, says the number of rich people only rises over time, so societies collapse unless they choose revolution, civil war, or invasion, each of which creates instability.
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"...to constantly fight each other over and over again for status. Peter Turchin, the social scientist, has a concept for this. It's called elite..."
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"And there's a problem because first of all, the poor didn't have any land in order to grow food. So they were forced into..."
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"...Okay? But it comes from, a historian, by the name of, Peter Turchin. Peter Turchin. Who's a historian. He's American, but he, came over..."
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"...rebel. A worker revolution. Okay? That's what Karl Marx, argues. And, Peter Turchin says, okay, that's a really interesting theory, but if you look..."
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"...at some point. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So, Peter Turchin's theory, of elite overproduction is, because, the number of rich people,..."
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"Those are your three options. But, if you did that, that creates, more instability. So, over time, no matter how, you structure your society,..."
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"This is the Peter Turchin idea. And he argues that what leads to the election is the election. What leads to civil war is..."
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"...Okay? Elite overproduction. This is a term coined by the historian Peter Turchin. Okay? And his theory is that you have turmoil, you have..."
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"...okay and this is idea of elite overproduction so the historian Peter Turchin he looked at the father Roman Republic the French Revolution he..."
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"...called elite overproduction. And this was proposed by a historian named Peter Turchin. And Peter Turchin spent decades looking at why societies rise and..."
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"Okay? And that's the idea of elite overproduction. And that's what Peter Turchin says. The elite, the children of the elite, are always fighting..."
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"...happen. The first is the idea of elite overproduction, right? The Peter Turchin argument, which is that over time, you have too many nobles,..."
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