Cheers Jed. So true, small tribal societies actually banished their sociopaths, which often amounted to a death sentence. Today, Wall Street uses psychological testing to find them and promote them. Your hydrocarbon theory also seems highly plausible. Oil definitely altered the course of our geopolitical history. And, now we will have AI to pull all the sticks together and bind them tightly.

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Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Written by Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Top Economics Writer, Gov. service, corp consulting, & faculty posts (e.g., Mich., Stanford, British Columbia). Piles of scholarly pubs & occasional diatribes.

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