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Societies rise when elites let managers motivate workers through democracy, openness, meritocracy, and innovation, then decline as elite children engage in rent seeking and steal from the corporation.
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Societies rise when elites let managers motivate workers through democracy, openness, meritocracy, and innovation, then decline as elite children engage in rent seeking and steal from the corporation.
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Rise means improvement, decline means stagnation or slight worsening, and collapse means society is about to fall apart.
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"...again, this is the model we're working with to explain the rise and fall of societies. At first, in this system, the elite families..."
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"The corporation runs into trouble, and the managers are forced to coerce the people, which leads to greater conflict. And eventually, over time, the..."
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"...so far. And discuss what is it that allows societies to rise and fall. So, we'll look at three phases. The rise, the decline,..."
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"...Um, I remarked something like this early in talks on the rise of Germany, romanticism, et cetera. Yeah."
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"...think that he was going to bomb Iran, the people would rise up, they would elect a new government, and that would be that,..."
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"To get its people to rise up against the leadership?"
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"...are a threat to their peace and prosperity then they might rise up against the molas which is what we've seen over the years..."
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"...The third is to strangle Iran and cause the people to rise up against the government, okay? And the Russians—so if things stay the..."
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"I mean, one might argue that with the rise of things like AI and robotics, the cost of production is going to drop. And..."
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"...and how frequent they are. Is there a frequency to the rise and fall of these, I guess, perceived realities or empires as he..."
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"...are the same way where empires, they will be born, they'll rise, they'll die. And it's a good thing because that's what allows for..."
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"...will see happening another trend that we'll see happening is the rise of germany and japan okay hey why well historically the most powerful..."
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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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