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1 timestamped hit 1 source reading 2 extracted notes Newest source: 2025-05-29, day precision Aliases: consumer-slaveries, slaveries, slavery

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consumer slavery

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "He wouldn't be like that. He'd be like what have we done to humanity? This is far worse than the industrial revolution what's happening..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "He wouldn't be like that. He'd be like what have we done to humanity? This is far worse than the industrial revolution what's happening..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong (2025-05-29, day precision).

Most connected source reading: What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong.

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consumer slavery

Glossary

Jiang's description of modern self-enslavement to schooling, money-making, and buying things.

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diagnosis

Jiang says Marx would be horrified by the shared outcome of communism and capitalism: humans reduced to consumers whose life script is school, money, and buying things.

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