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Re:The Academic Great Gatsby Curve by AlbertCory on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:15PM (#38031144)
No, that's only your opinion. Millenia of scholarship about societal origins have never said that.
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Re:The Academic Great Gatsby Curve by harimau777 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @11:19PM (#38055586)
Not really, it's basically what Hobbes argues in Leviathan.

What are you basing your assertion upon?

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Re:The Academic Great Gatsby Curve by AlbertCory on Saturday October 28, 2023 @11:50PM (#38055701)
No, he doesn't. That's your gloss on Hobbes. He didn't mean "inequality" in the modern liberal sense that you are using it. You cannot import modern "thinking" (if that's the word for it) back to the 18th Century.

I suppose you're going to seize on the word "inequality" here:

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/ch...

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