Jiang compresses America's attachment to the dollar system into a dependence on 'free and easy money,' treating cheap financing as the attraction underlying the addiction metaphor.
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Easy money
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Jiang says societies avoid easy money from gambling, prostitution, human trafficking, slavery, or money laundering because immorality destroys energy, openness, cohesion, and the soul.
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"...like Hong Kong and Dubai are so profitable and it's such easy money, why doesn't everyone do it? It's a good question, okay? And..."
"That we're striving for a higher cause. And if you're all about slavery or prostitution or gambling or money laundering, people won't feel good..."
"...America, the American economy. The problem is that once you have easy money, it becomes addictive. Okay? And so the way to protect the..."
"...problem though is that they're addicted to it because it's such easy money. So this is a contradiction. On one hand, the Americans know..."
"...long, long time ago. And now America is only interested in easy money. It's only interested in ensuring its dominance over the world. And..."
"...bankrupt you. They promise you all this easy credit, all this easy money. You become addicted to easy money, just as like China, the..."
"...a shift towards financialization, where America started to absorb all this easy money from the world and translate it into these risky financial instruments..."
"...to monetize my youtube channel because if i see all that easy money rolling in right it's going to make me greedy it's it's..."
"...I guarantee we'll make at least $500,000 a year. No risk. Easy money, okay? Number two is, I want to start a website that's..."
"...for him. He was promoting empire in order to maintain the easy money flow into Athens. Empire is important because remember, Athens has a..."
"...remember that America is now addicted to empire. Because empire represents easy money. All money has to be channeled through the U.S. And so..."
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