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He identifies Western decline with higher property prices, inflation, higher stock valuations, lower real growth, euthanasia for the poor, mass immigration, population replacement, lower birth rates, debt, gaslighting, and privatization or asset stripping.
Jiang diagnoses the contemporary world as being in decline and treats war, ecological pressure, work malaise, low birth rates, stress, debt, low trust, disease, immigration, and housing pressure as symptoms.
Jiang argues South Korea's low birth rate follows from an ossified monopoly economy and Confucian face culture that force parents to concentrate resources on one elite-competition child or have none.
Jiang says low fertility follows when people see neighbors as competitors instead of members of a community they want to grow.
"Yeah, great question. So when you have a monopoly, what you do is you create a hierarchy, right? Because everyone's trying to get into..."
"...that's why an economic monopoly would naturally lead to a low birth rate."
"Exactly. Because everyone sees themselves as competitors against each other. And you're right, you lose a sense of community, right? Because you have a..."
"This is U.S. debt. You can see how the debt is just booming, okay? So up until the year 1980, for 200 years of..."
"...is killing off the poor people. Mass immigration. Population replacement. Lower birth rate. Greater public and private debt. Bureaucratic gas letting. When the government..."
"Okay? And I know that these first few classes may seem abstract and theoretical, but that's because we're developing the ethical models in order..."
"troops to Mexico and Venezuela, okay? So we live in a world of conflict, and that tells us that the world is in decline...."
"So also, you have lower birth rate. Okay? And this is a very important sign, right? Because if you think about it, if young..."
"Also, and this is really important, is the idea of debt. Right? Both public and private. There are lots of governments around the world..."
"People are more stressed than before. People are less optimistic. So we can go on and on and on because the signs of rapid..."
Western decline looks like immigration crisis, unaffordable housing, assisted death, fake prosperity, debt, surveillance, and war.
Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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