If you have grown up in a household which had decent quality of life and now you are struggling, you cannot even match the degree of wellbeing that your parents achieved, this is very obvious and makes people feel completely dissatisfied with the system that we have now. Peter Turchin Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Peter is a complexity scientist who has established a new field of social science research called cliodynamics. He is the author of the book End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, Key Highlights Introduction - 0:45The Crisis - 3:05Elites - 11:54Popular Immiseration - 30:59Cliodynamics - 43:40 Key Links End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution Learn more about Peter Turchin Democracy Paradox Podcast Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Francis Fukuyama Responds to Liberalism’s Discontents More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Democracy Group Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at [email protected] Follow on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast 100 Books on Democracy Support the show