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To further clarify, from his blog

“elites are simply a small segment of the society who concentrate social power in their hands”

and

“social power [is the] ability to influence other people’s behavior”

http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/who-are-the-elites/

So we aren’t producing jobs for influencers fast enough, acc’d to point 3. What is the smallest ratio of influencers/influences an economy can support? And for what size niche of interest? And how many niches? The grand YouTube experiment...

I’m a bit concerned point 3 means that critical thinking, as influencer kryptonite, is a jobs destruction program. Seems unfair...

The postEmpire UK is a bit of a counterexample to point 6.

Point 5 is a little thesis/antithesis-ish without the synthesis.




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