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When good Governments go bad: History shows that Societies collapse when Leaders undermine Social Contracts (scitechdaily.com)
submitted 1 week ago by MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml to c/politics@hexbear.net
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The researchers also examined a common factor in the collapse of societies with good governance: leaders who abandoned the society’s founding principles and ignored their roles as moral guides for their people.

What does that remind you of?

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[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Other way around

Societies start to collapse -> leaders start exploiting their people harder to try and keep them disciplined and contain unrest