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John Stewart and the evolutionary world view

Thing in itself

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Farming Techniques That Promote Cooperation

When you start farming, clumsily and so on, you can get some benefits. But if you farm in a way that promotes cooperation between the entities that you're farming, then the entities you're farming become far more productive as they collect it. So he, he discovered that it was far more effective, far more in his interests because he could strip, could harvest a stream of ongoing benefits. You know, to settle down and govern in China. And on all accounts, you know, he learned how to govern it in a ways that maximized the stream of benefits that could be extracted from China. This causes this enormous untapped potential. It is very useful here because you can

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