The U.S. dollar plays the modern role Jiang assigns to bronze: universal, value-storing, mobile, and enabling rapid global capitalism.
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Global Capitalism
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"So in other words, bronze became the first real universal currency in the world. And this allowed for rapid development. Rapid globalization in the..."
"...that for the past 20 years with the rise of capitalism, global capitalism, we've been brainwashed to believe that we are just commodities that..."
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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