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Jiang's general category for hereditary imperial rulers who stop producing and instead extract wealth, land, and obedience from the population.
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Rent-seeking elite
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...over time, it becomes a disadvantage. All right? Organization means an elite. The problem with this is that over time, the elite become parasites...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...over time, it becomes a disadvantage. All right? Organization means an elite. The problem with this is that over time, the elite become parasites...."
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"...just the Roman Empire, it's all empires. Eventually they produce an elite that is hereditary, which is corrupt, which is rent -seeking. So the..."
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"...over time, it becomes a disadvantage. All right? Organization means an elite. The problem with this is that over time, the elite become parasites...."
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The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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