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@cjd @piggo ok, but the 2nd group is the best equipped to raise to power, so unless we come up with some innovative sociopolitical system that punishes them, we'll always be ruled by them.

I think we were born in the brief period in human history where skilled labor at scale was a necessary element of political power. The elites couldn't just extract GDP out of starving, beaten down laborers, or natural resources (except in a few countries like Russia or Iraq) so we had a somewhat democracy.
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