Jiang says both the Franciscan and Dominican orders began as righteous institutions and were later corrupted by different temptations.
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Institutional decline
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Jiang says hospitals and universities show the same pattern: productive staff counts stay relatively flat while administrative jobs proliferate dramatically.
The host says British imperial finance functioned like an asset bubble that kept living standards rising long enough to mute popular resistance, but now appears to be imploding into institutional dispossession and loss of national coherence.
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"Okay, alright, so, okay, so, again, to summarize, we've, we've learned about the Franciscan order, and we learned about the Dominican order. They both..."
"positions those are what you define as like the elite yeah so if you just look at um the growth of administrative jobs like..."
"Well, it does obviously lean into what you said earlier, where is, if you were doing this and it succeeds, in many ways, like..."
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