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10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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Human History - Is There Any Relation Between Equal Access to Resources and Equal Decision Making Power?

The ultimate question of human history is not our equal access to material resources, but our equal capacity to contribute to decisions about how to live together. Greber and wengro explicitly decouple the idea of wealth and equality from power in this book. They ask: Is there any relationship between equal access to resources and equality of decision making power?

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