Cory Doctorow on Nostr: So sensible policies that are needed to ensure an orderly, stable society (for ...
So sensible policies that are needed to ensure an orderly, stable society (for example, limiting war bond repayments to a sustainable level that won't bankrupt the economy to make wealthy bondholders even richer) become impossible, and then you get societal collapse (see, for example, World War II).
The backbone of *C21* is a time-series of 300 years' worth of global capital flows, painstakingly assembled by Piketty and his grad students.
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