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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
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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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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