Jiang says neoliberal consumer values have made people miserable, lonely, alienated, and depressed, and therefore must be abandoned if humanity is to survive.
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Loneliness
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"I I think that the future if we are just to survive and thrive as a species we humans need to abandon these neoliberal..."
"...as well in that you know there's a mental health crises loneliness individualism you know that for young men the highest cause of death..."
"...if I think they still have a minister of uh of loneliness and you see the media every now and then write about the..."
"...children and we're all going to cure ourselves because of our loneliness okay so we need um as a society as a world as..."
"...More anxiety, more anxiety. More depression, more suicide, more unhappiness, more loneliness than ever before in human history, okay? So you can't say capitalism..."
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