What are your hot takes on some of “The Great Books”, those considered part of the Western Canon. I'm not limiting it to the Enciclopedia Britannica volumes, you can talk about any of the renowned works on 19th and 20th century literature.
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I was just being glib, I wasn't trying to say the idea was it's whitey's fault.
However I think Argentina/Venezuela/Chile for instance absolutely could have succeeded economically had they not been through several rslur moments of their own making in the 1900s
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Also it seems like you can pick and choose extractive vs inclusive systems however you want. If Europe failed and China didn't he could easily say something like "this isn't surprising at all! Europe had 1500 years of entrenched feudal aristocracy while China allowed anyone to join their civil service system for longer"
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Oh absolutely. It also fits the narrative of the book. Typically one extractive institution is replaced with another. In South America you have the caudillos constantly fighting one another in the 19th century. In the late 19th and 20th, you get revolution due to the extractive nature of the governments, business, the US under the Roosevelt Corollary. I also recommend the revolutions podcast. Listing to that also helps show how rare a successful, stable revolution is.
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