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1. There is what I think might be an excellent book on this topic that I took out of the library but never had time to read

Sat May 23, 2026, 10:10 AM

Yesterday

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

The thesis of the book is that inequality is generally only erased by violence.

It strikes me as a concern for these times.

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