In answer to the student, Jiang says locals suffer even more than immigrants because immigration adds job and price pressure to an already declining economy.
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Economic Decline
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...of Filipinos. To replace the population. Because in a time of economic decline, you need your colonies to perform better. All right? So I..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...of Filipinos. To replace the population. Because in a time of economic decline, you need your colonies to perform better. All right? So I..."
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Jiang says that as the economy worsens the number of rents expands and elites become more parasitical, exemplified by retired academic or administrative figures drawing both pension and salary.
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"it's it's like maybe you like well i have this great idea but once you go into the system you're not allowed to actually..."
"salary and this is a very typical of elite in appearance period of rapid decline um so and and this just antagonizes young people..."
"All the Indian immigrants that you have mentioned took a part of the Canadian population. How about having the risk of Indians took over..."
"Right, okay. That's a great question, okay? So immigrants are suffering, but actually the local population is suffering even more. Because as we discussed..."
"...of Filipinos. To replace the population. Because in a time of economic decline, you need your colonies to perform better. All right? So I..."
"...That is that Europe is in decline. The demographic, it's an economic decline, it's international relevance, the ability to reproduce its culture, all of..."
"...and as and and peter tertian says like like a time economic decline they lead one to milk as much rent as possible of..."
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