Jiang says modern middle-class abundance is an illusion financed by borrowing from the future, and war or supply-chain disruption will bring the bill due through famine and normalized brutality.
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Desensitization
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "around the world because what people don't appreciate is that um we've borne from the future to finance today we shouldn't have eight billion..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "around the world because what people don't appreciate is that um we've borne from the future to finance today we shouldn't have eight billion..."
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"around the world because what people don't appreciate is that um we've borne from the future to finance today we shouldn't have eight billion..."
"borrowed from the future and we've mortgaged the future and eventually the bill is going to come due and so in a time of..."
"population morality decency um and I think people will be even more surprised by how quickly we become desensitized how quickly we normalize this..."
"...you know that's the backlash i didn't even think about the desensitization of desensitize i can't even say it you know what i'm trying..."
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