Jiang's description of poverty as manufactured suffering that motivates people to work for money.
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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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Jiang's phrase for poverty and suffering manufactured to make people desire money and work.
Poverty exists, in Jiang's model, because powerful people need artificial misery to make money feel valuable and to make work feel necessary.
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"...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..."
"The one who has, don't want to share the same."
"...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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The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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