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32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares

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The Logic of a Hyper Globalized Economy

If you live in los angeles, you're more likely to travel to basing, china, or to paris, france. You don't have that sense of solidarity because these people don't live with each other any more. So one of the reasons the military always worked super well is because it was the sort of forcing function of making people who came from all across the country share a room together,. That was like a very powerful creator of national solidarity and cohesion.

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