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A mature economic condition where rentier and asset behavior outcompete productive work, forcing stagnation or war-reset.
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financialism
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The argument is not that Stalin was good.
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All societies eventually collapse because of three boundary conditions: financialism, rat utopia, and elite overproduction.
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Financialism begins when lending, investing, and rent seeking become more profitable than entrepreneurship or producing real goods.
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War functions as a reset for financialized societies because destruction forces rebuilding and creates room for production again.
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"...The second reason is rat utopia. And the third reason is financialism. All right. So, let me explain the first, financialism. What do I..."
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"I'm creating wealth for the society. Right? You can also do that by building a factory. But over time, what happens is you eventually..."
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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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"...societies done in order to get out of this situation where financialism has destroyed your society? Make war, guys. Do you understand? When you..."
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"Right now in the West, it's the same thing as well. And at that point, you have no choice but to start a war..."
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"...into the promised land through his peer faith as well as financialism okay so in the french revolution you had rose pier who said..."
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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