Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Prof. Joseph Tainter, author of 'The Collapse of Complex Societies' discusses the factors that cause societies to become less complex and collapse. Could the Western Empire be heading down this trajectory?

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