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Jiang replies that this amounts to importing poor people in order to exploit them, which exposes the moral ugliness of the cheap-labor defense.
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Exploitation
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Key Notes
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Jiang says this founder ideology erases the distinction between AI and human beings, reducing both to energy inputs that can be exploited in service of a larger system.
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Organized religion creates artificial differences among faiths so religious authorities can exploit people and justify their own role.
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When capital enters leadership, leaders stop seeking reputation and begin treating people as commodities, aligning with other leaders as cartels or elites.
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The lecture's inversion sequence moves from animistic egalitarianism to mother goddess fertility, then to male sky-god domination, exploitation of earth and people, hereditary kingship, civil war, and bureaucratic takeover.
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Marduk's new order proclaims values of struggle, exploitation, toil, control, and irrigation, replacing a mother-goddess religion of balance and harmony.
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The state does not care about personal history, aspirations, or individuality; it classifies people into administratively useful categories it can exploit.
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Rent seeking means exploiting a power position to extract wealth from others, and the professional managerial class turns to rent seeking and worker exploitation when the corporation is in trouble.
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"But is that a good thing? Like, you know, let's bring in poor people to exploit."
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"I mean, for the capitalists, it's a good thing."
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"Okay, all right. Okay. Doesn't make sense, okay? He's saying it literally now. Start a religion or start a mafia. It doesn't matter, okay?..."
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"You're just energy to be exploited. Okay? You're just an energy that I need to turn into a cube in order to create my..."
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"...thing. What it what it has led to ultimately is massive exploitation over the people, because when you have like too many people, it's..."
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"Okay? So the idea is that religion is great. Okay? I'm a big supporter of religion. But organized religion is problematic. Because organized religion..."
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"So at first, this is good. Okay? Now you're expanding the system. And then you reach a point of its maximum growth. But then..."
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"Right? So you care about the feelings of others. Once capital enters the equation... Then the way that the leader sees you is different...."
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"If you force them, they will revolt against you. So the system must collapse. Okay? So, the argument I'm trying to make to you..."
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"Okay, good, all right. So let's do the PPT. All right, so in this class, I want to talk about how, because of civilization..."
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"And then with agriculture, you had the mother goddess civilization, because you needed fertility, right? The mother goddess, is able to give you more..."
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"What happen, what happened is that the bureaucrats will collude together to steal power from the king. Okay, the servant rules the king, okay?..."
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