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Robin Hanson: How Global Elites Manufactured Stagnation and How We Escape

From the New World

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The Idea of Elits Is Used Almost Always Incorrectly

The idea of elits is that we have someone who has proven themselves to be able to win out in a given field. But i think it's used to describe something quite different, which is an inheritor class. And so the problem i have here is that a lot of problems we need actualle rate. I tie this greater social erosion, or this greater a formation of global mobs, as directly tied to the attempts of inheritor class people to further entrench their power.

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