Ferry Building Marketplace, San Francisco 2009 / © I.A. DaglisWhat should an elite do to gain popular support while still maintaining a more comfortable lifestyle than commoners? Kleptocrats throughout the ages have resorted to a mixture of four solutions:
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2. Make the masses happy by redistributing much of the tribute received, in popular ways. This principle was as valid for Hawaiian chiefs as it is for American politicians today.
Jared Diamond [Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, 1997]
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