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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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How Does Wealth Translate Into Power?

Right wing loves this dawn of everything argument about wealth and power not being related. The material conditions of the advanced, industrialized world actually recreates a lot of the same conditions that make equality possible. In immediate return, hunter gather societies in all sorts of interesting and key ways. And when we look at that, we'll see that the ingredients for a much more galetarian and libertarian world are all there. It's just that our awareness hasn't caught up to what it takes to set people in motion to big changes. i want us to be filled with good ideas instead of half baked nonsense so that we'll take actions that might actually bring us closer to our goals.

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