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3 timestamped hits 2 source readings 3 extracted notes Aliases: artificial-miseries, miseries, misery

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artificial misery

Jiang's description of poverty as manufactured suffering that motivates people to work for money.

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artificial misery

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Jiang's description of poverty as manufactured suffering that motivates people to work for money.

artificial misery

Glossary

Jiang's phrase for poverty and suffering manufactured to make people desire money and work.

Lecture diagnosis on 2025-08-22.

diagnosis

Poverty exists, in Jiang's model, because powerful people need artificial misery to make money feel valuable and to make work feel necessary.

Timestamped Evidence

Power Is Alchemy

2025-08-22, day precision · Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed)

Transcript

"...to make you want to get money, I need to create artificial misery. Do you understand? Right? If there weren't poor people, you wouldn't..."

Power Is Alchemy

2025-08-22, day precision · Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed)

Transcript

"The one who has, don't want to share the same."

Power Is Alchemy

2025-08-21, day precision · Secret History #1: How Power Works

Transcript

"...to make you want to get money i need to create artificial misery you understand right if there weren't poor people you wouldn't want..."

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