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Peter Turchin on Elite Overproduction | Becca Rothfeld on Samuel Moyn | Esau McCaulley on Time | Benjamin Fong on ILWU | Aki Ito on Loyalty is Dead

Stowe Boyd
Aug 12, 2026
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Peter Turchin says elite overproduction leads to an increase in inequality, and then a decrease in societal cooperation:

How does growing economic inequality lead to political instability? Partly this correlation reflects a direct, causal connection. High inequality is corrosive of social cooperation and willingness to compr…

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