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Downstream: How To Predict the Future w/ Peter Turchin

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The Importance of Turning Off the Wealth Pump

The leader of the Taiping rebellion in the middle 19th century was also a teacher. The oligarch who helped fund the Bolshevik party had his palatial residence taken by the Bolsheviks. Mao again is part of that sort of credential 10%. So in this country, the idea of radicalized lawyers, I can't see as much as the US because of the law school industry you have over there. But what I can really see is amongst teachers, highly credentialed, highly intelligent, highly capable.

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