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.
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Gratitude
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...we get more of society as opposed to like let's show gratitude for for the wonderful life we've had because like as a baby..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...we get more of society as opposed to like let's show gratitude for for the wonderful life we've had because like as a baby..."
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"...we get more of society as opposed to like let's show gratitude for for the wonderful life we've had because like as a baby..."
"...lives and whenever we discuss it it's never like one of gratitude it's not like you know oh wow I am so fortunate to..."
"...paying our thankings thanks to the gods, okay, we're showing our gratitude. Their knowledge of everything that they saw was complete, the four corners..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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