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Used to describe wealthy Western elders who keep demanding greater benefits and comforts instead of accepting limits or yielding resources to younger generations.
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hedonic treadmill
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...of the world of the world of the world of the treadmill I can't get the word out had Jim any no hedonic treadmill..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...of the world of the world of the world of the treadmill I can't get the word out had Jim any no hedonic treadmill..."
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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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"...of the world of the world of the world of the treadmill I can't get the word out had Jim any no hedonic treadmill..."
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"sprinting on the hedonic treadmill there we go yeah it's it's always like how can we improve ourselves right it's always like how can..."
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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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