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A powerful and wealthy feudal elite that has maintained power for two centuries through a mix of authoritarianism and religious sentiment now feels embattled following its loss of power in Abuja and, with it, the means to dispense patronage to formerly obsequious followers.

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And we want to shift the systems that open the doors for people who were formerly tax burdens to become part of the tax base.

And that's 70 percent of the United States stock market, 70 percent of the operating system formerly known as your pension, your mortgage.

Even formerly enslaved African children in the antebellum South jumped rope, too.

For me, it means helping others to raise the beams on their own formerly abandoned houses, or helping to educate those with privilege, now increasingly moving into cities, how we might come in and support rather than stress existing communities.

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