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Another student argues gluttony differs because it reduces what it takes to nothing through consumption, rather than simply acquiring it.
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Consumption
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Jiang explicitly says anger makes you think you are hurting others when in fact you are also consuming yourself.
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Jiang says confused desire does not merely admire beauty but expands outward to absorb, control, and consume it.
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Dave argues that America's postwar wealth shifted from production to a system of consumption financed by Bretton Woods, petrodollar status, debt, finance, and government-linked extraction.
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Jiang says East Asia's export and savings model is fragile because if Western consumers weaken, East Asian economies will struggle and high household savings signal low trust in the future.
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Jiang argues that Canada's problem is absorbing global savings into a Ponzi-like asset system while China's problem is underconsumption driven by insecurity and hoarding.
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Jiang says the collapse of the property market has drained public optimism, left people without spending power, and pushed the Chinese economy into rapid decline.
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"I don't know so much about that. Like, to me, it feels like greed is when you take things and gluttony is when you..."
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"Yeah, but that's what we're saying. Gluttony is like you just want too much. No, no, no. Whereas greedy, you're taking from others."
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"exactly okay so you think you are hurting others but you're actually hurting yourself you're consuming others but you're also consuming yourself in the..."
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"Okay, okay, so this is really important, okay? So let's try to understand what he's saying here. So the soul comes from the divine,..."
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"He moves towards him and tries to consume him. It drives her insane. And the moment he leaves her, she has to kill herself,..."
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"in many cases the germans had like superior machinery but we would churn out 2 000 pieces of arm you know before they could..."
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"is a totally just unfair deal for the world on behalf of the uh on behalf of america and but i would add the..."
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"...been talking for a long long time about shifting to a consumption -based economy but look the Chinese say 40 percent of the household..."
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"they don't they don't spend any money but if people aren't spending any money you can't actually grow the economy and and that's an..."
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"Okay. So the decisions are not usually made. I'm talking like high level decisions are not usually made between government and government. They're usually..."
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"...the Chinese central bank has a problem of how to increase consumption. The Canadian central bank has a problem of how to absorb more..."
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"Um, what I mean is that China peaked in about 2008. Um, and when I mean pick in me, I meant that expanded too..."
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