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Social capital is dependent upon the continuing goodwill of others. That is an important restriction. If Gandhi had dropped his ascetic lifestyle, deciding to obtain a mansion, his social capital would have declined dramatically.

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Yes, but he'd still have had the mansion and the lifestyle. He'd have just lost the adoring crowds.

People with mansions always have an adoring crowd.

Saddam had a lot of mansions.

He had an adoring crowd too. He just had a much larger opposite crowd.

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