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Jiang uses Piketty to contrast financial capital returns with real-economy returns, arguing that young people invest in assets because real work is less rewarded.
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Financial Capital
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"Does that make sense? So, the example is, okay, there are five restaurants in Beijing. They're obviously trying to compete against each other for..."
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"Okay? On average, if you put $100 in the stock market, you make $5. All right? But the return on the real economy is..."
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"Okay? The first idea is that America will become the financial capital of the world. America will offshore resources and manufacturing to other places...."
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"...of Dubai as like the future New York or London, the financial capital of the GCC. It's this mirage has evaporated."
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"...is a very glitzy city. And it's trying to be the financial capital of the Middle East. And there are thousands of extremely wealthy..."
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"...technology. And then as we have seen, technology becomes subordinate to financial capital. And so the Gulf countries are essentially, they've been unifying and..."
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"...religion or, or army. So now you've got this new transnational financial capital. And. You know that they they essentially call the shots, and..."
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"from the Middle East over to Europe, and financial capital has got a new partner, which is China, the Gulf countries, and America just..."
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