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The unipolar-era logic of making things as cheap, fast, and profitable as possible for the broadest market.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The new world is governed by an adapt-or-die logic: some will survive, most will not, because the ordering principle changes from efficiency and profit to resilience against repeated crises.
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Efficiency imagines the best case and extracts profit; resilience imagines the worst case and asks whether a society can survive it.
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Jiang says the world economy was built to be efficient rather than resilient and became addicted to cheap energy.
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"Sorry, Rick, but I hate to break the news, but this is COVID 2.0. Southeast Asia, India, Japan, South Korea, all these places are..."
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"...has happened is we have to move from an emphasis on efficiency to... Resilience. Okay? That is the main goal in the future. Today,..."
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"The idea of efficiency is, let's imagine the best case scenario and try to make as much money out of it as possible. Okay?..."
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"it has high efficiency yes yes that that that's what you what you were taught"
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"...will be where there are no more accidents, where there's fuel efficiency, where everyone can now afford transportation."
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"the sand basically because again we want efficiency not resilience we want to hear good news we refuse to hear bad news okay but..."
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"...mean. They're extremely efficient. The only way you can achieve this efficiency is through constant innovation. So the Vikings are constantly always thinking about..."
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"...book makes the case, at least the ergonomic case or the efficiency case, that, that it is such a drag on the educational system..."
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