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I keep on explaining this. Okay? They are the ones in power. And so what has to happen is also society has to collapse before society can regenerate, before society can rejuvenate. Okay? 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There's no space for you. Okay? So the only thing you can do in this context is to really start educating yourself in real knowledge. All right? Reading books, meeting lots of different people, exploring the world..." } ] }, { "term": "rent-seeking behavior", "usages": [ "People in charge exploiting their positions for easier lives and passing privilege to friends and children." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 995.845, "end": 1054.11, "time_label": "16:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Nowadays, you can talk to like 20 or 30 different deans, dean of student affairs, dean of student faculty, who knows, okay? But there are like all these offices that you can go to. And quite honestly, it's the same at t..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1054.53, "end": 1116.14, "time_label": "17:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "They take advantage of the position in order to make their life easier. And then they pass on this privilege to their friends and then to their children. And this creates a bureaucracy. 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Okay? It's all a scam. Doesn't matter what university you go to, liberal arts, Ivy League, state, it's all a scam. Doesn't matter what your major is, economics, psychology, humanities, computer science,..." } ] } ], "chronology_notes": [ { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0001" ], "note": "The source event Jiang is discussing occurred at Yale in October 2015; the lecture itself is dated 2025-10-11.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "segment_id": "seg-0001", "start": 0.27, "end": 78.16, "time_label": "0:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay so welcome back from the break. Today I want to talk about an incident that happened in October 2015 at Yale University. What happened was this Halloween is coming up and then Halloween people like to dress up sill..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0037" ], "note": "Contains a dated prediction from 2025-10-11 that many American universities may go bankrupt over the following five to ten years.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 1690.3, "end": 1740.87, "time_label": "28:10", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "were marianne's the filings for 2020 alone showed over 18 000 in lease and insurance payments for the short cars okay so they had cars and they were making university pay for these cars over four point seven million in..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 1740.87, "end": 1805.01, "time_label": "29:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "managers at the top they all best friends they're all stealing from the university together and eventually the university will bankrupt so that's america okay but it's not again it's not just the universities it's every..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0076", "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0077" ], "note": "On 2025-10-11 Jiang gives direct advice to current 12th graders that he might not go to university today and would prioritize self-education.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0076", "segment_id": "seg-0076", "start": 3647.04, "end": 3664.08, "time_label": "1:00:47", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Okay, Mr. Zhang. My question is, so I'm a 12th grader. So if you are in my shoe, like if you are in a 12th grader nowadays, what would you do? Like, are you still going to pursue for a further education, a higher educat..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0077", "segment_id": "seg-0077", "start": 3664.3, "end": 3724.21, "time_label": "1:01:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Yeah. Okay. That is a great question. So you are... You guys are about to go to university, and as I told you in this class, university is a complete rip off. Okay? All you're doing is you're paying for the nice salarie..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] } ], "uncertainty_notes": [ { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0006" ], "note": "The student's answer is ASR-noisy and fragmentary; treat it as a broad safe-space/rule-respect position, not a clean quotable public question.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 190.66, "end": 223.49, "time_label": "3:10", "speaker": "SPEAKER_07", "excerpt": "others um like if did the college prohibit these on dressing that maybe us be an offensive to other students it's just in the campus if you like work out you know the society is still have people like wants to uh dress..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0014" ], "note": "Segment 0014 appears to mix Jiang setup with quoted confrontation video; 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In China, it's called or. Okay? People don't want to work anymore. Lying flat, let it rot. People don't want to work anymore. Why? 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