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I'm reading a book about cities from Ancient Greece and Italy. What's surprising is that almost all of them went back and forth between aristocracy ruling and democracy. The aristocracy is almost always the rich people that continue to get richer, at which point there's a revolution into democracy where the people take the property and distribute it more "fairly." A new class of rich people emerges which then becomes the aristocracy and the whole cycle begins again.

It's no wonder that before the American Revolution, most people had a very bad impression of democracy. It was almost always something like socialism/communism driven by envy.

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Alfred 1mo ago 💬 1

There is nothing new under the sun. Each age feels static, like we have reached an equilibrium. Then a sudden change comes along.

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Kuba 1mo ago

Exactly, and the reason of all those problems continually repeating is greed, and then desire to be compensated without putting any work, others just lie - like: what u mean bro? I do intellectual work, I trade options and stuff, its hard work bro!

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