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It worships Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and the rich; it despises the poor as lazy. In the short term, immoral play makes nations rich, energetic, cohesive, and able to defeat rivals. In the long term, it destroys the people who play it.", "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0038" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2432.39, "end": 2505.55, "time_label": "40:32", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "a great question okay so we know that if you become successful you will not be happy why do people um go and succeed and okay this is a really um hard question to answer okay so let me explain different layers okay the..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0038", "segment_id": "seg-0038", "start": 2505.93, "end": 2555.77, "time_label": "41:45", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "It's because you refuse to work, okay? So the game is set up so that we're focused on making money. Then the question then is, why do we have this stupid game? 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And in order for it to obtain wealth, it had to trade with the world. Specifically, it wanted spices from what the..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 312.66, "end": 369.4, "time_label": "5:12", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "They're actually worth more than gold, okay? Something like cinnamon, nutmeg, peppercorn, okay? These spices are extremely valuable commodities. In fact, one ship, if you're able to bring one ship of these spices back t..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "segment_id": "seg-0007", "start": 369.84, "end": 435.12, "time_label": "6:09", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And so they set up these colonies all around South America. And a lot of silver was now being transported back to Spain. And so overnight, Spain became extremely wealthy. 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Now, and what, and because of this, what's happening is that the British, England, the Dutch, and the French, they are slowly becoming a much more energetic, open, an..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "segment_id": "seg-0012", "start": 728.23, "end": 795.07, "time_label": "12:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "decide to join forces with the Catholic Emperor the French 너무 pouquinho okay so I want to show very quickly show you the difference between the Catholic religion and the Protestant religion okay so these are the Spanish..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "segment_id": "seg-0013", "start": 795.07, "end": 855.38, "time_label": "13:15", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "the wealthiest nation in the world per capita you have this burgeoning of the middle class and so what happens now is that the spanish and the dutch come into conflict because remember the dutch are a colony of the span..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 855.38, "end": 931.32, "time_label": "14:15", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "in europe right before up until the world war one okay and so this creates anxiety in europe because if there's all this war and you're joining all this wealth how do you keep the wealth secure, right? You're a merchant..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "segment_id": "seg-0015", "start": 931.86, "end": 1004.43, "time_label": "15:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay. And so you're like, okay, why would they do that? Why would they betray their own king, James II, and install a foreign monarch, William of Orange? Okay. And so the thing you need to understand is that throughout..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1009.9, "end": 1076.58, "time_label": "16:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay. What people don't appreciate is that the real reason why they want to do that is they want to protect capital. Okay. Capital. Okay. Or transnational. So the idea is that not only does William of Orange come over,..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang explains why lending to a nation through the Bank of England is safer than lending to a king, then expands the model into property rights, offshore financial centers, Britain's wars against Napoleon, the East India Company, India and China extraction, and the game that incentivizes local elites to help Britain steal and export wealth.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang lecture", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "segment_id": "seg-0017", "start": 1079.03, "end": 1135.611, "time_label": "17:59", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "alright. So this is a very important idea, guys. I, I, I need you to understand this for the rest of the semester. Okay. So before you're a King and you, you need to go fight a war, you borrow money from bankers and mer..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1135.611, "end": 1205.84, "time_label": "18:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, even though the king dies, the people are liable for the debt, okay? Does that make sense? All right? So, now, if you're a merchant, you feel safe. I cannot put my money in the Bank of England. It's my money. If I l..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "segment_id": "seg-0019", "start": 1206.46, "end": 1274.4, "time_label": "20:06", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because remember, both the Dutch Republic and England are Calvinists, okay? And the major secret society that facilitated trade, of course, were the Freemasons. But during this time, these two were really between eros...." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 1278.55, "end": 1360.79, "time_label": "21:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? The entire purpose of parliament and the courts, okay, the judicial system, is to ensure that your private property is protected, no matter where your private property came from. Okay? It doesn't matter. They don'..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1360.97, "end": 1443.26, "time_label": "22:40", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Their legal system, their financial system, will help protect this money. Also, Switzerland. Okay? So, Switzerland is a classic example. But England create this, and they base their entire nation around this idea...." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "segment_id": "seg-0022", "start": 1444.99, "end": 1515.21, "time_label": "24:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So what England will do is they will colonize India and steal all the wealth of India, primarily by de -industrializing India. So India had textile factories. But England, through a lot of policies, bankrupted the India..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1515.77, "end": 1601.427, "time_label": "25:15", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And the same idea was... The opium went into China, and then silver and money went back to England, okay? And then, this money was allowed to go over to the United States. 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And the third thing, of course, is the N..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 1945.56, "end": 2015.54, "time_label": "32:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So let me give you an example of this. This is a drug trade in the world. Okay? And as you can see, the drug trade, okay, primarily cocaine, we're talking about cocaine. There are other types of drugs as well, but..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 2015.54, "end": 2083.744, "time_label": "33:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "only participate in this trade if they can be guaranteed that they can make a lot of money and they can use this money and protect this money, okay? So what protects this money, of course, is the offshore financial cent..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 2083.744, "end": 2162.18, "time_label": "34:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "This used to be the former British Empire, okay? So the British Empire is still around today. They transformed from one that is overt and that uses military power in order to control the world. They transformed to one t..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 2163.62, "end": 2217.22, "time_label": "36:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "That we're striving for a higher cause. And if you're all about slavery or prostitution or gambling or money laundering, people won't feel good about themselves. In fact, their souls will become corrupted, okay? 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So this is why people are not breaking into the world right now. Because if you think about it, okay? Okay, all this cor..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 2292.34, "end": 2367.527, "time_label": "38:12", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But over -financialization, it's a very simple concept where there's too much money, so people become corrupt, lazy, arrogant, and insular. And that's what's happening in Canada, in the United States, in Britain, in Aus..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0035", "segment_id": "seg-0035", "start": 2367.527, "end": 2416.11, "time_label": "39:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And then you also have immorality, where nowadays, people aren't concerned about making money. They no longer want to contribute to the community, okay? So yes, we can say that, the western world it's evil because they'..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0036" ], "kind": "question", "summary": "A student asks whether Western success leading to corruption and fall means success itself is self-defeating, and asks what success is for.", "speaker_attribution": "Student or audience member", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 2416.11, "end": 2432.39, "time_label": "40:16", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "to the corruption and you know the fall of western world can we generalize that you know after success people will fall then what's the meaning of success okay that's um" } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0038", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0039", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0040" ], "kind": "answer", "summary": "Jiang answers that wealth does not create happiness, but the game forces everyone to worship the rich and chase money because short-term cheating creates national power even though long-term it corrupts and destroys the people.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang answering the student question", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2432.39, "end": 2505.55, "time_label": "40:32", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "a great question okay so we know that if you become successful you will not be happy why do people um go and succeed and okay this is a really um hard question to answer okay so let me explain different layers okay the..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0038", "segment_id": "seg-0038", "start": 2505.93, "end": 2555.77, "time_label": "41:45", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "It's because you refuse to work, okay? So the game is set up so that we're focused on making money. Then the question then is, why do we have this stupid game? And the answer unfortunately is that what we figured out is..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0039", "segment_id": "seg-0039", "start": 2555.77, "end": 2622.08, "time_label": "42:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And that forces the other players to play this game as well. Because... In the short term, this game... This game gives you huge advantages, okay? So think of... It's a zero -sum game. So think of an Olympic game where,..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2624.7, "end": 2682.55, "time_label": "43:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The American Empire and how the American Empire changed this game, right? So what the American Empire will do is they will add U.S. dollars to this game. 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And so you're like, okay, why would they do that? Why would they betray their own king, James II, and install a foreign monarch, William of Orange? Okay. And so the thing you need to understand is that throughout..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1009.9, "end": 1076.58, "time_label": "16:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay. What people don't appreciate is that the real reason why they want to do that is they want to protect capital. Okay. Capital. Okay. Or transnational. 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Their legal system, their financial system, will help protect this money. Also, Switzerland. Okay? So, Switzerland is a classic example. But England create this, and they base their entire nation around this idea...." } ] }, { "term": "over-financialization", "usages": [ "Too much money in a society, producing corruption, laziness, arrogance, insularity, inequality, and political capture." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0033", "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0034" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0033", "segment_id": "seg-0033", "start": 2218.72, "end": 2289.3, "time_label": "36:58", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So even though everyone will say this system is demonic, it's really underpinning the world today. So this is why people are not breaking into the world right now. Because if you think about it, okay? 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