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A pyramid economy means centralized planning, where Pharaoh and palace coordinate state resources; Jiang says such centralization produces inequality, corruption, and waste.
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A pyramid economy means centralized planning, where Pharaoh and palace coordinate state resources; Jiang says such centralization produces inequality, corruption, and waste.
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"Right? It was to control the Nile. And they failed. So this creates, first of all, a crisis of faith. Okay? A crisis of..."
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"...just easier to do. Okay? And the third problem is just waste. It's not very efficient. So basically a pyramid, a pyramid economy is..."
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"...doesn't really work. Second is the centralization creates inequality, corruption, and waste. And third is religious belief can only lead to the corruption of..."
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"Water and electricity. Okay? And financing. They cost a lot. They waste a lot of water. They waste a lot of electricity. And, it's..."
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"...policymakers is that they don't let a crisis ever go to waste. And policymakers are first and foremost concerned about how to create more..."
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"...And so, you know, never let a good crisis go to waste. And so, there is clearly a depopulation agenda at work here behind..."
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"...spend too much money they become overconfident and so then they waste a lot of money and then it collapses the economy turns bad..."
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"...means that you're not thinking strategically. Okay? Maybe you're going to waste too many soldiers on the battlefield. They're brave, but they're kind of..."
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"...heights of Troy, filled with fighting men who laid the city waste. Sing that for me, true to life as it deserves. And I..."
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"...sad when the city, the place of my ancestors' graves, lies waste and its gates have been destroyed by fire? Then the king said..."
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"...with survival in fact you can argue that religion is a waste of time why aren't"
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"...care of you, even though, from their perspective, it was a waste of time and energy because you're going to die anyway."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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