Monday, October 26, 2009

Kleptocrats #4

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:
1. http://diamantia-kai-skouria.blogspot.com/2009/10/kleptocrats-1.html
2. http://diamantia-kai-skouria.blogspot.com/2009/10/kleptocrats-2.html
3. http://diamantia-kai-skouria.blogspot.com/2009/10/kleptocrats-3.html
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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