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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...a democracy. America can be influenced by voters as well as corporations, right? So the Americans were afraid of voter backlash and that's why..."
Jiang argues that the U.S. trade-war campaign was constrained by democratic voter backlash and corporate dependence on China, while China's authoritarian system allowed it to absorb higher domestic costs.
Simon says the government hands power to corporations and corporations hand it onward to finance, with technical power then contesting the top of that hierarchy.
Simon argues that sovereign countries can play an infinite game, whereas corporations and democracies are trapped in short cycles that make them subordinate to immediate capital needs.
Jiang argues AI also serves as a politically convenient excuse for layoffs because corporations and governments already carry many redundant workers and can blame cuts on automation rather than on managerial or structural choices.
Jiang argues that corporations are structurally psychopathic because they pursue profit without regard for human beings or the environment, so people who rise within them tend to mirror that logic.
Jiang says America is becoming a renter economy in which a few giant firms control assets while average people are pushed into dependency.
"...a democracy. America can be influenced by voters as well as corporations, right? So the Americans were afraid of voter backlash and that's why..."
"That will affect your stock options. That will affect your inclusion in the S &P 500. And then you don't get access to full..."
"Yeah, I'd agree with most of that. Now I follow financial flows. And you know, by following the money it's helped me try and..."
"Corporations, they're in a three -month game. In order to get their next access to capital, they have to play a three -month game..."
"...a lot of it is the over -pricedization of society, where corporations have too many people, government has too many people. So how do..."
"So you look at Twitter, right? I mean, like, when Musk came in, he fired, like, 1,000, 1,000 employees, and he had, like, a..."
"...great documentary okay and i highly recommend everyone watches called The Corporation okay um it was put out like many years ago but it's..."
"...have, you know, a few patrician families, you know, a few corporations, BlackRock, Vanguard, And the way that they create wealth is by enforcing..."
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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