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Some questions to consider:

1. Can we force the size of the elite to the smaller, if so, how? Curtis Yarvin recommended shrinking the elites from 1-in-5 to 1-in-20, and the solution converges with Patrick T. Brown's "Mid-Tier Underproduction" thesis, i.e. Esty-fication of craft and art.

2. Since elite overproduction may be a symptom of a bigger problem, would it be caused by other things? e.g. Turchin's Big Gods Theory, Samo Burja's Elite Founder Theory

3. Is this pattern recognizable on the smaller scale (organizational and social)? It seems to converge with concepts such as The Venkatesh Rao's Clueless, L. Dean Webb's Counterelite, "Midwit", "Small-Souled Bugmen", and others.

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