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Secret societies arise because younger sons excluded by primogeniture form raiding gangs to steal cows, sheep, and women, intensifying steppe war culture.
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Younger Sons
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The disinherited younger sons must build wealth elsewhere, which in Jiang's model means stealing cattle and expanding through violence.
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"Okay? All right? But now your problem is, wait a minute. If the eldest boy inherits everything, what do the other boys do? Well,..."
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"So let's just say I have 10 sons, and I have 100 cattle, and I die. Who gets my cattle? Who gets my wealth?..."
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"You have to go build your own wealth. And that means basically stealing cows from other people, okay? So this creates a war culture,..."
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"...founded by jacob what happened is that um jacob is the younger son esso is the older son so you would think that esso..."
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"...much more wealthy, you have a problem of elite overproduction. Basically, younger sons who cannot inherit any land. And so they must go on..."
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"...Isaac had a son named Jacob okay um Jacob is the younger son of Isaac so Esau should have inherited the birthright and the..."
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