It bothers me that the only periods of history I know at all follow this principle (i.e. friendships between well-situated individuals dominate era), yet this is almost never a lens historians use.
Confirmation bias, random convergence, my lack of erudition or a blind spot?
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Incidentally, my inability to put too much faith in both states and markets is a core driver of why I’m so obsessive about making friends.
In my frame, both mechanisms are complex abstractions of “people helping people”, and I prefer to approach it from first principles twitter.com/HelloShreyas/s…
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