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Part VI: The Commanding Heights
The Commanding Heights are scarce, controllable positions of economic power whose holders durably capture the gains of increasingly capable and diffused intelligence. In 1922, Lenin defended concessions to private trade on the justification that the state still held “all the Commanding Heights,” the vital branches of the economy through which all else flowed. Unlike fleeting bottlenecks, a Height durably captures a share of the economic activity it enables, and the multiplication of that activity further entrenches the Height. Read by an AI voice. Read it, with its notes and charts…
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