Jiang says old Florentine families were oriented toward helping their neighbors, but heterogeneous incoming values dissolve that shared norm.
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He argues that in a real breakdown people would not automatically turn murderous; changed conditions would push neighbors to cooperate and improvise together.
He argues that adaptation to shortages requires more sharing and personal sacrifice, including giving up private wealth so neighbors can survive.
Jiang says in crisis people naturally self-organize through intuition and cooperation rather than collapsing without formal authority.
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"...families were dedicated to helping other people around them, helping their neighbors. But when you have people with so many values come in, like,..."
"...is maybe before in your apartment complex, you didn't know your neighbor. The lights go out all out. So what you do is you..."
"...you have to make personal sacrifices to make sure that your neighbor has enough to eat. And unfortunately, there's gonna be a lot of..."
"...you do, what you do is you go talk to your neighbor and say, hey, maybe we should work together. And your neighbor's like,..."
"We can't exist. We can't function. But the truth of the matter is that, no, if there are no laws, if there are no..."
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