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The Dutch East India Company is presented as a quasi-state corporation with monopoly, army, currency, government, and law-making power.
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Monopoly
Financialization explains decline as capitalism moving from consumer wealth creation to financial speculation and then monopoly, where money grows faster than the real economy.
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Jiang argues that middle-class life is now difficult because monopolistic bureaucracies control expensive essentials such as hospital services, schooling, and housing.
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Financialization explains decline as capitalism moving from consumer wealth creation to financial speculation and then monopoly, where money grows faster than the real economy.
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In Jiang's summary, Marx, Piketty, and Carroll Quigley all read capitalism as crisis-bound because production, finance, and monopoly eventually detach wealth from useful work.
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The VOC's profit-only corporate logic produced monopoly violence, including ethnic cleansing, enslavement, and repeated wars to control spice production.
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"And it makes their people very lazy, okay? So there are three ways in which you can take advantage of that. The first, of..."
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"Okay? And the reason why, it is a monopoly over the spice trade from the East Indies. It has its own army, it has..."
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"...up are hospital services. Schooling. Okay? Housing. Why? Because these are monopolies controlled by bureaucrats. All right? So, what's happening is with the over..."
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"But I will present three theories to you that I think are interesting. Okay. The first is the idea of financialization. And this theory...."
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"...on the generation of money. And then you move on to monopoly capitalism. Which is where just a few companies control everything. And we..."
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"All right. So let me give you an example. Let's just say I'm an entrepreneur. And I want to make as much money as..."
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"And the real economy does not grow that fast. Okay. And the difference is stark. Thomas Piketty spent a lot of time going over..."
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"this case we don't have to work as hard as before in order to create value okay so that's technology so for example ai..."
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"this at first we have to build a factory to generate wealth right but once we have to have enough wealth we want to..."
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"...wealth. But over time, the final stage is the idea of monopoly capitalism, where a few companies, basically control all the resources. In which..."
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"...English, and the French in order to maintain control over the monopoly. But over time, what they"
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