#JackTame: "There would be plenty of people who said that capping wealth at something like 10 million dollars would stifle innovation, and it's that innovation that is required to give the jobs that help the poorest people in society to sustain themselves."
#LukeKemp: "And I would say, I would call bullshit. There's just not good evidence that it's external motivations that are a big driver in innovation here."
'The “global Goliath” ...', 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4VaXKY_99M
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Everything You’ve Been Told About Pre-History is Wrong
It’s the question that will come to define our lives: is our society going to collapse? But the field of collapse research is fragmented, chaotic, and often just plain deranged. Who can you trust?
Luke Kemp is the author of Goliath’s Curse and a Research Affiliate at the Cambridge University Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. And he’s also a political radical
Novara Media | You Can’t Have Billionaires and Democracy. Ancient Collapse Proves It. by Novara Media
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The new Novara Media series “Do Your Own Research” investigates whether modern societies are headed toward collapse, drawing parallels with past empires. Host Richard Hames talks with Luke Kemp—author of *Goliath’s Curse* and a research affiliate at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk—who warns that we are near the same tipping point that toppled earlier empires, describing states as criminal gangs in disguise and likening ancient Rome to a modern ISIS, while arguing that billionaire power undermines democracy; the show, featuring music by Iglooghost, was published on 25 April 2026.
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Listening to the audio book of Goliath's Curse performed by the author Luke Kemp.
Luke is looking at similar historical and anthropological data to that looked at by Graeber and Wengrow in The Dawn of Everything.
But from a different perspective - societal collapse.
The cowboys and Injuns TV shows of my childhood take on a whole different perspective ...
#lukekemp #history #lecture #inequality #psychiatricdisroders #men #societalcollapse #collapse
2/3 where the community failed to expel them in time, which failure allowed these individuals to force their will upon the community and gain power.
Only egalitarian societies without any hierarchy are sustainable long term (see Khoisan). If we want to survive the #climatebreakdown, we as a community MUST use that lever, -> 3/3
#lukekemp #history #lecture #inequality #psychiatricdisroders #men #societalcollapse #collapse
Excellent lecture!
The lecturer does mention - but just shortly - the root cause of hierarchical and thus exploitative societies: Men born with psychiatric disorders, ->2/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1le5Sj7Qp4
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse #systemcollapse
Best podcast I listened to in sometime:
Don't be a dick
In his Leviathan-like Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, by way of a solution for civilisational demise, #LukeKemp advises “don’t be a dick”.
Luke, an associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University Cambridge, argues, as I do in my book, that our global civilisation is careering towards the worst societal #collapse yet, with the main threat coming from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” of vile personality traits - #narcissism, #psychopathy and #Machiavellianism.
https://sarahwilson.substack.com/p/dont-be-a-dick #sarahwilson
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