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Robin Hanson: How Global Elites Manufactured Stagnation and How We Escape
From the New World
What Are the Consequences of This Growing Homogeneity?
i study formal political theory, which is usually of democracy. And a standard result in formal models of democracy i you get sort of a main axis of disagreement and parties split along this axis with roughly equal power on both sides. But notice that in, say, firms, or towns, or even cities and governorships in the united states. That's not how it goes. Far more common plattern at the smaller scales, there's just one dominant party that wins and the other party doesn’t. In lot o contixs. Most clubs, churches, most of them are dominated by a single main coalition that just keeps winning. So that's a plausible future for the world as
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