"Spoils-rich majority" is a good, accurate term. It correlates about 0.9 with "cultural majority" but with some ambiguity at the margins. ht
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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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