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Joe Tainter: “Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification”

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification of Complexity

Jared Diamond: Modern finance adds another layer of risk. He says we have a lot more paper claims representing energy than there actually is energy available to solve problems. In the future, if we have less energy per capita and it's harder to get energy, what does this mean for all of the outstanding debt? But again, for some serious problems emerging from that, but your trouble would be a better place to answer that than I am.

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