If the spoils-rich majority is massively productive (postwar US), the noise of undeserved spoils is lost in the signal of productivity. It's when you get jolts to productivity that things go weird as the noise overwhelms the signal. For viability, a spoils system needs wealth.
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It's always shocked me just how incredibly paternalistic & "socialistic" Norman Rockwell era America really was. You had a job more or less for life thanks to govt incentives that built factories everywhere. You had access to healthcare. Choice was really low. Imports were few.
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