Glossary
The condition produced when unpayable debt turns the debtor or the debtor's children into unpaid labor for the creditor.
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Debt slavery
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model
Jiang's recurring decline model says prosperous, peaceful, stable civilizations tend toward overpopulation, elite overproduction, and financialization or debt slavery; these factors work together to end civilizations.
model
Compound interest makes debt eventually unpayable and produces debt slavery, including the promise that one's children will work for the creditor for free.
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diagnosis
Debt slavery creates instability because people at the bottom want to run away or rebel.
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He says the Roman elite expropriated public and private land, forced ordinary people into debt slavery, and thereby created appetite for reformers such as Tiberius Gracchus.
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"...land, and charge people with rent for that, forcing people into debt slavery. And this was the majority of the population. And this created..."
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"Same process with the Mayans where over time, because of their breakthroughs in agriculture, they reach a peak in about the year 780, 80..."
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"Okay? That's a causation. I... But some other scholars argue it is correlation, and the reason why is that Mayans are really famous for..."
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"...happens, what happens now? Okay. Good. Yeah. So the idea is debt slavery. Okay? So if you can't pay me back, you become, you..."
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"...as the population increases, the number of people, who go into debt slavery, increase. And therefore, people at the bottom, are very angry. But..."
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"...do is go bankrupt. All they do is force everyone into debt slavery, and then everyone's forced to engage in speculation in order to..."
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"...And the focus on like this absurd topics, um, economic collapse, debt, slavery. Inequality corruption. Okay. So America is going through a classic imperial..."
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"...this land was promised to us by God, and therefore, debt. Debt, slavery, landlessness, it's all evil in the eyes of God. And therefore,..."
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"...tongue -ping. Okay? And the third is the idea of financialization, debt slavery. Okay? And the idea here is that if you're a very..."
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