gosh its almost like theres somebody who predicted this long ago and compiled it into a framework, a scientific framework if you will. Gosh what was his name, erm, charles was it? Charles Moxie?
gosh its almost like theres somebody who predicted this long ago and compiled it into a framework, a scientific framework if you will. Gosh what was his name, erm, charles was it? Charles Moxie?
I read another article on this guy’s take a while ago.
I remember it being ok but not great. Stuff like “getting a degree used to be an elite-only activity and would confer certain privileges. But now there are more degrees than uses, causing unrest among people who would have been elites a few generations ago”.
Generally not wrong but not as compelling as I find Marxist analyses
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"But the hard science of Turchin’s approach cannot explain all things. After the Great Depression in what some might call a negotiated settlement, elites negotiated a unionised settlement with the masses in a moment of enlightened self-interest."
yeah, things would be much better explained by Marxist analysis than "enlightened self-interest" eureka moments of Capital suddenly realizing they had to knock some of their shit off if they didn't want the guillotine. It was not benevolence, it was the outcome of the haves acquiescing to the growing social movement of the have-nots.