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A class condition where parents can reliably keep promises, producing trust and delayed gratification.
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stability
A class condition where parents can reliably keep promises, producing trust and delayed gratification.
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Fresh water is used as a stability index: regions with abundant water are less prone to conflict, while water-poor regions become future conflict zones.
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The dollar's gold peg is presented as a stabilizer that prevents the Americans from printing unlimited money inside the reserve-currency system.
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The third parenting difference is stability: rich parents can keep promises because they have money; poor parents live with volatility and therefore teach a less trustful worldview.
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Jiang answers that social mobility is the best form of governance because it lets talented, ambitious people climb, stabilizes society, and increases prosperity and creativity.
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Elizabeth's reign is described as stabilizing England by balancing Protestant sympathy with Catholic cooperation while resisting Catholic conspiracies.
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Divide and rule works by balancing natural factions so local actors depend on imperial authority for stability.
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Jiang says Caesar grew up inside the contradiction of the imperial republic and saw himself as destined to save the Republic through reform and restored stability.
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China did not develop the alphabet, in Jiang's account, because it was isolated and stable for most of its history.
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"if you have a lot of water, you're less prone to conflict, but if you don't have that much water, then you're prone to..."
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"you're like wait a minute here if this is true the u.s dollar can the americans can just put as much money as they..."
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"...major difference between rich parents and poor parents. Rich parents offer stability. Okay? Poor parents can only offer volatility. This is a very simple..."
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"...belief and trust in authority figures. Right? So if you're rich, stability, you have stability. But if you're poor, you don't have stability. So..."
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"Okay. Yeah. Okay, look, you're absolutely right. So social mobility is really the best form of governance, right? As long as you enable people..."
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"...plus years. And what makes her extremely significant is she brings stability to England by sympathizing with the Protestants, but also by working with..."
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"So what they do is the nobility strikes a deal with Cyrus the Great. And Cyrus the Great conquers Babylonia without doing anything. And..."
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"...able to balance these factions, then they're relying on you for stability. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, this is what we call divide..."
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"...the republic by implementing the reforms necessary in order to restore stability in Rome. Okay? He basically wanted to make Rome great again."
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"Okay? So, the people who actually developed the alphabet were the Egyptians. Okay? Egyptians. And the reason why is, Egypt was constantly in contact..."
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"China isolated, but it was stable for most of its history because for most of China's history, China was run by a class of..."
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"It will not collapse, on its own. Something must hit it, for it, for it to collapse. But this one thing, could be anything...."
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