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Jiang says Covid lockdowns benefited boomers with assets and health-risk concerns while damaging young people's mental health, schooling, and economic prospects.
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Simon says the real citizen response to corrupted politics is to redirect money into local community, useful assets, and boycott choices rather than relying on voting alone.
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Jiang models the contemporary economy as a giant Monopoly board or rentier order in which incumbents own the key assets and younger people are forced to keep paying rent without a realistic path to ownership.
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Jiang says America is becoming a renter economy in which a few giant firms control assets while average people are pushed into dependency.
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Jiang says debt is treated as an asset in the banking system, which helps explain why Chinese banks grew so large by repeatedly lending money into existence.
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"in the 80s you had the reagan revolution the reagan revolution was opportunity for people with talent with ability to make as much money..."
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"...baby boomers because first of all um they they they had assets in the stock market and so market boom at that time second..."
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"...only those that are able to understand the game accumulate the assets that get them to get ahead of the trend. They're the only..."
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"down to the macro, your relationship with yourself, your family, your community, and you should use your money in order to support that infrastructure..."
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"like quiet quitting yeah um to be honest with you I think it's a very similar process and um I just think like nowadays..."
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"a giant game of Monopoly and not only are young people forced to continue playing the game but they're still paying exorbitant rents yeah..."
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"That's right. So, you know, a classic analogy is of course the fall of the Roman Republic. When you have, you know, a few..."
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"...air when it loans you that money it's actually increasing its assets so if you just look at chinese banks uh chinese banks have..."
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This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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