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@Ruth_Mottram

Personally I have no contingency plan in front of me, because this is not a deviation from the trajectory I expected.

Democracy only flourished X the costs of broad increases in standard of living could be externalized (ie: conquests, colonies, slaves, overfishing, pollution etc).

(I'm not sure if 'X' is "because" or "while" and that is only of academic interest anyway.)

In other words: Democracy seems to be a luxury item.

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