What 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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4. The remaining way for kleptocrats to gain public support is to construct an ideology or religion justifying kleptocracy.
Jared Diamond [Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, 1997]
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4. The remaining way for kleptocrats to gain public support is to construct an ideology or religion justifying kleptocracy.
Jared Diamond [Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, 1997]
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