Jiang says modern middle-class abundance is an illusion financed by borrowing from the future, and war or supply-chain disruption will bring the bill due through famine and normalized brutality.
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Borrowed Future
Jiang says modern middle-class abundance is an illusion financed by borrowing from the future, and war or supply-chain disruption will bring the bill due through famine and normalized brutality.
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"around the world because what people don't appreciate is that um we've borne from the future to finance today we shouldn't have eight billion..."
"borrowed from the future and we've mortgaged the future and eventually the bill is going to come due and so in a time of..."
"population morality decency um and I think people will be even more surprised by how quickly we become desensitized how quickly we normalize this..."
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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