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Tooze and Klein on China's Economic History and Future
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What Makes Societies Soft?
There was, there was a tyler con article which was making the argument that the west was able to let hundreds of thousands, now millions of people die over the course of 20 20. It's an interesting thought experiment though, because i think one of the things that the c c p talks about very explicitly is the need for a sort of national sacrifice. And then you get to the question of, what makes societies soft? Is it crossing to 20 thousand dollars gd p per capita? Is it not having a war for 50 years? Even thogh societies like britain sent considerable numbers of troops, the culture around the british army is not one that would engender the
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