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Key takeaways from The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse

A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news. Open at source

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The effect of war is to reward communities that organize themselves to fight and survive, and it tends to wipe out ones that are simple and small-scale.

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