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Elite overproduction means too many powerful people competing for limited positions of power, a condition Jiang says causes decline, war, revolution, or collapse.
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Elite overproduction means too many powerful people competing for limited positions of power, a condition Jiang says causes decline, war, revolution, or collapse.
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"...elite overproduction. And this was proposed by a historian named Peter Turchin. And Peter Turchin spent decades looking at why societies rise and fall...."
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"And rat utopia was a series of experiments conducted by an American scientist named James B. Calhoun. And what James Calhoun was trying to..."
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"But no matter how Calhoun configured the experiment, ultimately, the rats always ended up killing each other. Okay. So what he discovered is. If..."
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"This is the Peter Turchin idea. And he argues that what leads to the election is the election. What leads to civil war is..."
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"...Elite overproduction. This is a term coined by the historian Peter Turchin. Okay? And his theory is that you have turmoil, you have wars,..."
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"...and this is idea of elite overproduction so the historian Peter Turchin he looked at the father Roman Republic the French Revolution he looked..."
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"...And that's the idea of elite overproduction. And that's what Peter Turchin says. The elite, the children of the elite, are always fighting for..."
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"...constantly fight each other over and over again for status. Peter Turchin, the social scientist, has a concept for this. It's called elite overproduction...."
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"...The first is the idea of elite overproduction, right? The Peter Turchin argument, which is that over time, you have too many nobles, you..."
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"...But it comes from, a historian, by the name of, Peter Turchin. Peter Turchin. Who's a historian. He's American, but he, came over from..."
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"...A worker revolution. Okay? That's what Karl Marx, argues. And, Peter Turchin says, okay, that's a really interesting theory, but if you look at..."
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"...some point. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So, Peter Turchin's theory, of elite overproduction is, because, the number of rich people, can..."
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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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