The American-led postwar game that Jiang says expanded wealth and population but became unstable and unsustainable.
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consumer capitalism
The American-led postwar game that Jiang says expanded wealth and population but became unstable and unsustainable.
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America's nation-state theory is described as a game in which the Constitution and government act as game masters and immigrants can become rich by working hard.
He identifies postwar American consumer capitalism as a unique system that grew the global population from about two billion to about eight billion and generated enormous wealth, including in China.
He predicts that because the consumer-capitalist system is unstable and there are too many people, at least half of humanity will die in World War III.
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"...other anymore. Okay? And so America created this game, right, called capitalism, consumer capitalism, in which we live in today. And this system is..."
"...in the past 30, 40 years because of its participation in consumer capitalism. Okay? But unfortunately, we've now reached a point where the system..."
"So the French, their theory was the social contract. The Germans, their theory is iron and blood. Okay? Race. The Americans had a different..."
"...what he argues is that. What happens in society is that capitalism transitions from face to face to face. In the beginning, you have..."
"...money are not the same thing. So in the first phase, consumer capitalism. You focus on the generation of wealth. In financial capitalism. You..."
"...a famous book called Tragedy and Hope. And he argues that capitalism goes in phases. The first phase is consumer capitalism, where companies are..."
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