Kristen Breitweiser
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 14 Apr
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And that doing that would be economically and socially extremely painful, but ultimately it would be the only way that they would survive.
And then after the First World War, their experiment is very obviously proven correct, is that the only society which effectively stripped the monarch of all power and actually gave some, again, not nearly enough, but some power to its people was the only one where the monarchy was able to live.
So Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, all of these other empires and monarchies fall completely.
They become irrelevant last names in Europe.
There's only one monarch.
As technology is bringing their civilizations closer together.
Right, and I think that you have to find some sort of a balance.
We have this extraordinarily rich country where the vast majority of the wealth is concentrated at the top.
That is the new modern American aristocracy.
So they basically have to make
the same bargain is you can have short-term riches uh that yes will continue to go up but in the long run we know how this is going to end you're probably going to lose it in some sort of violent revolution or who knows you know crazy government takeover or you can voluntarily support more transitionary measures to try and like stem the tide of a lot of this angst and its anger and uh
Yeah, this is our time for choosing, you know, the Gilded Age.
It was very violent.
It also was very, you know, think about.
Andrew Carnegie was basically shamed into being charitable.
Absolutely.
All of those labor disputes.
I mean, remember, like union strikers, they were killed in the streets.
It was bad for a long time.
A lot of those people died for some of the worker protections that even people enjoy today.
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