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Jiang says attention is the true wealth beneath money and that modern economic discourse trains people to treat GDP and monetary gain as the center of human life.
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The host argues that South Korea shows how top-tier modernization can coexist with low fertility, suicides, loneliness, and a loss of meaning.
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Jiang says one major American weakness is an AI-driven GDP story built on expensive data centers with unclear economic returns.
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"So, before, these people were called priests, right? What's the job of a priest? Priests were to create a narrative about the world that..."
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"...the news, like, read it very carefully, right? It's always like GDP, okay? What matters is GDP, how much money was made. It's not..."
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"...draw some sociology there you it also shows that the the GDP and the economic numbers they don't always reflect the health of a..."
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"do like well measured by robot density in terms of how many robots per individuals and such so well I would put it on..."
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"like Amelia um oh I guess Durkheim who wrote about the the industrialization in France in the 19th century that the the areas would..."
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"when you when you go there to see how where they are now is is it is this the human component that gets lost..."
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"...economy. The first is artificial intelligence, where right now, most American GDP is driven by investment in AI. So just building data centers, which..."
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"...10 % fall in energy means a 10 % fall in GDP. That's as big a downturn as the Great Depression. So, that alone..."
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"...great deal. When your economy suffers a great deal, you lose GDP,"
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"...quite clear was they may lose a few percentage points of GDP if the United States gets sucked into a quagmire in the Middle..."
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"...he's gotten countries, except for Canada, to agree to that 5%. GDP spending limit or floor. So really, these are things that had to..."
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"...In fact, it's getting poorer. Its life expectancy is declining. Its GDP is declining. And that's on purpose. The nation of Canada has been..."
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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