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25 September 2025

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  • curprev 05:4005:40, 25 September 2025Mbauwens talk contribs 1,455 bytes +1,455 Created page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "From outright slavery to modern wage coercion, societies have repeatedly optimized for surplus extraction by binding people into work they cannot freely refuse. The formula behind this is simple: '''The Coercion Formula: Elites maximize their gains when the profits they extract are larger than the costs of enforcing control.''' Whenever the costs of maintaining guards, laws, or surveillance are lower than the wealth squeezed from people..."