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Yacheng's avatar

Should be required reading for the US State Department. It would help them understand the stunning success rate of their regime change and nation building efforts the last 40 years. Excellent work.

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Terry's avatar

My favourite insight: "Reversing (i.e. perverting) status patterns so that people get prestige from victimhood—extending to various forms of failures of competence or even wildly anti-social behaviour—while stigmatising people who conspicuously successful (as oppressors or exploiters) is deeply destructive of human flourishing." Re human capital, I note that there is a debate currently as to whether typical IQ in sub-Saharan Africa is 70 or 80.

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