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Jiang says a meritocratic person treats apology as entering another person's debt rather than as repairing a wrong.
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Jiang says the usurers' purses trap them in the ground because in life they trapped others in debt and interest.
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To answer the student's anachronism objection, Jiang models Roman despair through a present-day analogy of indebted young people facing gig work, blocked marriage, and no path to home ownership.
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Jiang says this elite-finance role made Jewish communities the visible collectors of debt, so during downturns popular anger fell on Jews rather than on the nobility that structured the arrangement.
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The deeper point is not the nominal debt number but collective belief: even huge debt loads are survivable so long as people still treat money as real and continue receiving basic services.
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Jiang says America is running out of time because falling Treasury demand raises interest costs on a debt load he describes as roughly $39 trillion, making lower rates and renewed foreign Treasury buying urgent.
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Jiang argues that more dollar creation and debt growth eventually convince the world the United States cannot really repay what it owes, which then reduces Treasury demand and forces interest rates higher to attract buyers.
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He claims China has substantial debt capacity because it holds relatively less foreign invested assets, making it a continued target for expansion-led integration in his model.
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"...apologize, that means I, I'm not, I'm not in this person's debt. I now owe him or her a favor, right? Rather than seeing..."
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"...punishment because in life they trapped or they enslaved others with debt, right? With interest. So they're getting a taste of their own medicine..."
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"...went to school now you have a hundred thousand dollars in debt um and you have actually no job prospects the best you can..."
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"be pretty pissed yeah again i think this well this is absolutely true on present day and it highlights some of the most poignant..."
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"The destruction of society, okay? When you collect interest on debt, the debt often multiplies to an extent that no one can pay it..."
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"...matter. The US government could have like 500 trillion dollars in debt. Who cares? As long as you're willing to still use money as..."
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"question the very foundations of society which leads them to question the very foundations of money itself. Okay? So this is a huge problem..."
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"...to buy U.S. Treasuries, certain problems arise. Okay? First is the debt interest. So right now, the debt is at $39 trillion. Let's assume..."
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"So the debt, their natural dollars will continue to increase. And then the world's going to think you can't actually pay this off. Right?..."
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"...that we can sustain the, the, the interest payments on the debt. Um, and, um, w and then we're going to force everyone to..."
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"And who are the biggest buyers of US Treasury, by the way?"
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"...And the reason why is China still has a lot of debt capacity."
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