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The claim that power differs from wealth and fame because it cannot be infinitely expanded; one person's power excludes another's.
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zero-sum power
The claim that power differs from wealth and fame because it cannot be infinitely expanded; one person's power excludes another's.
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"And it's a really interesting idea. Is the reason why societies collapse in the end. Is you have too many elites. All right? So,..."
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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