Perhaps this blog post might clear that up. This guy who "authored an influential study" was a Stanford psych and law professor knew people and had a team. What does gvt do anyway other than the bidding of the networks of people running it? https://bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/trade-and-peace/ …
No one in government has an incentive to do anything other than (a) loot the place and (b) raise personal status through virtue signalling. This guy started a cascading wave that let a lot of people do (b). I'm sure if someone were to dig a bunch of (a) happened too.
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Exactly - he wanted in on the virtue signalling action and he got it! People ooh'ed and aww'ed at his status at parties and he likely leveraged that into getting laid a few times. What does game theory say about this?
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People use the phrase "late stage capitalism" - consciously or not using an incorrect Marxist framework. In contrast "late stage democracy" is very real. Late stage democratic governments act less and less in anything that could be described as its own interests.
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