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July
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https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/11/24/you-wont-survive-as-human-capital/
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Leo
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Reading this now; love Palladium found this interesting, confusing: "The reformations of Julius Caesar & Augustus saved the institutional Roman state & its power" but I'd say the ultimate judge of a reformer is how their reforms affect the likelihood of a subsequent reformer being able to fix the subsequent problems?
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July
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Yeah this Roman reference weak imo I’d say for Rome there were 3 major reforms 1) Roman Republic -> Roman Empire (Julius Caesar and Augustus) 2) Switch from Pagan -> Christianity, Rome -> Constantinople (Constantine) 3) Corpus Juris Civilis (The Justinian Code) especially the unification of Church and State
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Leo
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Overall I found the essay pretty bumbling, as if the intention was more to emote or signal a set of values, than convince anyone of anything. The Amish case study was useful for me, but the fundamental point that we need new agentic groups felt unoriginal enough not to deserve the fluff. Perhaps I just don't understand
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Leo
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As for Rome, thanks, this is interesting. Empire defo sustained the civ; embrace of Christianity sort of did, but today looks like the beginning of the end (idk?), and Justinian code feels like it came after the writing was already on the wall, but maybe that's a marker of how ineffectual it was
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