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5 Jan
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>THIS IS NOT GOING TO GO AWAY

that's not the key.

let's compare with a historical precedent: the fall of the soviet union.
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the fall of the soviet union - theories abound:
- it was bankrupted by Star Wars
- it became too corrupt & incompetent to go on
- the people woke up and threw off the yoke of tyranny

bollocks.
it was the elites. Image
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early on in the soviet revolution they killed off nearly all of the elites - art, academia, military, science, management.

excepted were only the high-IQ, middle class "elites" at the extreme top of the bolshevik faction.

other than that, the USSR was bereft of the elites. Image
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1 Jan
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when thinking about preparing rulebook:
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companies used to be in *hierarchical* identity structure; somewhere between family & village/city. ex: the guilds

advantage: natural cohesion.

however, /...

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however, this changed to companies being *orthogonal* to other identities. cohesion suffers.
(primordial intersectionalism?)

later on, the orthogonality has been enshrined in law:

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31 Dec 20
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interesting thread, mostly solid, except the economic & political predictions.
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the political alignments aren't shifting, because the current ones did *exactly* what the established wanted: they kept the establishment in power; Reps as "spicy opposition"; DSA as "far left bogeyman"; Dems as "moderates in between".
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the economics point is a bit subtler:

- there is no need to *publicly* punish or shame anybody, because no group has been *officially* blamed for the economic meltdown

- no major economic players enter or leave the political scene (only the small & medium businesses)
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