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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...nobility would consolidate all this land. And the peasantry became a renter class. And they were forced to go in the city of Rome..."
Jiang uses ancient Rome to argue that imperial war, debt, and land consolidation can turn peasants into a renter class and generate the social base for populism.
"...nobility would consolidate all this land. And the peasantry became a renter class. And they were forced to go in the city of Rome..."
Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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