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The capacity of a society to grow its population and projects beyond small egalitarian limits, enabled by organization and wealth.
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The capacity of a society to grow its population and projects beyond small egalitarian limits, enabled by organization and wealth.
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A permanent elite gives society three advantages: organization, wealth, and scale, allowing population to rise from roughly 10,000 in egalitarian society to about a million.
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The problem with egalitarian societies is that they have less organization, less wealth, and less scale, reaching at most about 10,000 people and therefore eventually being conquered.
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"...you have these two things, organization, and wealth, you also have, scale. And, what scale basically means, is, your population, now, can move up...."
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"When you have that, you have three advantages. Okay? What the elite gives society, are three major advantages. The first major advantage, is the..."
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"...projects. Okay? They have less wealth, and therefore, they have less scale. Okay? You can have, at most, 10,000 people. Which means what? Which..."
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"Okay? Either you expand, or you fight a civil war. And so, you take over egalitarian societies, and you make them into, your society...."
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"...as a means of payment. It's still not used by any scale as a means of payment. And the main thing is it's been..."
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"...city will be unable to sustain life on the scope and scale necessary to be, to retain the stature that they enjoy today. People..."
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"...So the truckers did it on as even as a small scale. And it worked. If we could get the, you know, uh, the,..."
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"...you gotta, you've gotta see it first. You gotta have the scales fall from your eyes. So then you know what to do about..."
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"...we will also be clear -eyed and realistic about the speed, scale, and quality of China's historic military buildup. Our goal in doing so..."
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"...is, they will go all in now, and launch a full -scale ground invasion, call it a national draft, and the world will never..."
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"...being funded by the nobility okay okay so it caused full -scale museums okay from the September of 18 Gazette and this is where..."
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"...America's game was limited to America, but now America wants to scale its game to the entire world. Okay? So how does it do..."
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