Glossary
Jiang's phrase for the person trained by capitalism and communism to treat buying, equality, and material metrics as the whole of life.
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economic animal
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...capitalism spreads by making everyone unified. By turning everyone into an economic animal. Right? Because today, we don't ask you to believe in God...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...capitalism spreads by making everyone unified. By turning everyone into an economic animal. Right? Because today, we don't ask you to believe in God...."
Key Notes
Glossary
The Marx-linked model that humans are driven by money, grades, jobs, and material advancement.
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Jiang summarizes Marx's model as the claim that humans are economic animals driven by the need for money and material advancement.
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"...capitalism spreads by making everyone unified. By turning everyone into an economic animal. Right? Because today, we don't ask you to believe in God...."
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"...class with. Okay? So today we think that we are either economic animals economic animals or biological animals. Okay? So the person who introduced..."
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"...Now there are other people who believe that we are biological animals and these are people people are called evolutionary biologists. They're inspired by..."
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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