10. Each experiment produced a competitive survival struggle between
rival empires that would determine eventual supremacy.
11. In each experiment one among the local and regional contestants
defeated, conquered, dismembered, assimilated or destroyed its rivals
and emerged as victor, giving its name to a civilization: Egyptian,
Babylonian, Persian, Roman.
12. In each experiment the victims of imperial aggression, conquest,
exploitation and assimilation, conspired, united, resisted and revolted
against the dominant power. The result was endemic civil war.
13. Within each experiment, as the civilization matured, the same
confrontations appeared at the nuclear center and in the
provincial-colonial periphery:
a. Extremes of riches side by side with slum-dwelling poverty.
b. Expanding unearned income, with one class (the propertied and
privileged) owning for a living and another class (peasants,
artisans, serfs, slaves) working for a living.
c. Intensified exploitation of mass labor side by side with the
proliferation of parasitism throughout the body social, consisting
of individuals and social sub-groups whose contribution in the form
of goods produced and services rendered was less than the cost of
maintaining the participants.
d. Economic stagnation. Public spending in excess of public income;
higher levies and taxes to replenish the empty treasury; rising
prices due to excess of demand over supply; public borrowing with
no means for repayment; the issue of money without corresponding
reserves; degradation of currency through decrease of its metal
content; unemployment among citizens due chiefly to increase in
forced labor of war captives and other slaves; public insolvency
due to territorial over-expansion; excessive overhead costs;
nepotism, bribery, corruption in public service; an over-large
bureaucracy feeding at the public trough.
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