Jiang says cross-generational cooperation is possible if people are willing to subordinate personal interest to the collective good.
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Key Notes
No generation has the right to bind later generations against further enlightenment; doing so is a crime against human nature and progress.
Jiang says baby boomers have the most power and wealth in America and would not accept even a hypothetical 50 percent tax to secure world peace for descendants.
Jiang says young people across East Asia and the West feel hopeless because older generations, especially baby boomers, have monopolized wealth, resources, and opportunity.
Jiang argues that wealthy Western baby boomers remain trapped on a hedonic treadmill, always demanding more from society instead of showing gratitude or yielding opportunities to younger generations despite having benefited from the West's most prosperous postwar decades.
Jiang says old ruling cohorts often have no problem sending younger people to die in war if doing so preserves their self-image and their sense of empire.
Jiang says imperial older generations may accept sacrificing even younger family members if that helps preserve the social feeling of empire.
The host says British debt from the Napoleonic wars remained payable into the early twenty-first century, illustrating how long this temporal borrowing can bind later generations.
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"Could a critical mass of boomers collaborating with other generations steer our global ship into the common waters with the spark of re -energize?..."
"...we did a thought experiment. Because right now, the baby boomer generation has the most power, the most wealth of any generation in America...."
"And it's not ridiculous, a 50 % tax on baby boomers. But by paying for the 50 % tax, this will ensure world peace...."
"...all the wealth all the resources have been monopolized by older generations especially the baby boomers so um in this sort of situation they..."
"...look let's move on and give an opportunity to to future generations you know your children your grandchildren and you have any they don't..."
"Policy will be determined by these baby boomers, and baby boomers are only interested in ensuring that they get their pension, getting decent health..."
"And they're probably happy. They're okay with sending young people, even their grandchildren, to their deaths if it means saving the empire. So I'm..."
"The Brits say, we're going to take the labor, the potential work output of the future 100 years of the British labor, and we're..."
"development in European countries so I have something different in theff I tell the different simplify I try toарищ a traditional statement to show..."
"...he's saying is that i'm i'm a i'm of an older generation than you right i have absolutely no right to tell you what..."
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