Glossary
Doing something from inner necessity and love rather than external payment; Jiang says capitalism replaces this with extrinsic motivation.
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intrinsic motivation
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "people and they enjoy it and because they enjoy it that process affirms your individuality and your creativity your validation basically. Okay? Alright. I..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "people and they enjoy it and because they enjoy it that process affirms your individuality and your creativity your validation basically. Okay? Alright. I..."
Key Notes
model
For Jiang's Marx, money destroys human relations because it replaces intrinsic affirmation with extrinsic payment.
diagnosis
He argues that China's system blocks the intrinsic motivation required by a knowledge economy because students are trained to succeed inside the school system rather than learn for their own growth.
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"people and they enjoy it and because they enjoy it that process affirms your individuality and your creativity your validation basically. Okay? Alright. I..."
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"...it destroys all human relations. Right? So he's talking about extrinsic motivation versus intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation extrinsic motivation is what makes us slaves...."
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"Capitalism makes us slaves because it deprives us of our humanity. Okay? That's what money does. So so does this make sense to you?..."
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"...filter out who succeeds and who fails. And this sort of motivation system works fine. But what we're finding now is that China cannot..."
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"And that's very much what China lacks right now. And because of that, China cannot progress as a society and as an economy. And..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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Jiang begins with a vocabulary problem and turns it into a civilizational one.
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