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Downstream: How To Predict the Future w/ Peter Turchin

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The Overproduction of Elite Graduates in the US

The UK analog is overproduction of that 10% graduate class or the elite graduate class, people at UCL Imperial. These are the people who will be frustrated elite aspirants and who will become counter-elites. We've emerged in a particular sort of political economic moment where living stands in this country, stagnating for most people. The coercive apparatus of the United States is so strong that no Bolshevik party that would try to violently overthrow the regime is possible. That leaves either writing or mass murder going out and just shooting random people, or you can get organized and try to take over one of the parties. And so, I see that this absoligent Republicans're trying to use that

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