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Jiang argues that rent-seeking positions are zero-sum, which is why many educated people compete for too few bureaucratic offices and become trapped in parasitic aspiration.
Jiang says that as the economy worsens the number of rents expands and elites become more parasitical, exemplified by retired academic or administrative figures drawing both pension and salary.
"um nowadays um these people uh have to go through a certain education system in order to achieve their level but the reality is..."
"it's it's like maybe you like well i have this great idea but once you go into the system you're not allowed to actually..."
"salary and this is a very typical of elite in appearance period of rapid decline um so and and this just antagonizes young people..."
Peter Limberg keeps pulling Jiang from method into metaphysics, from Protestant anxiety into secret societies, from Odessa and Iran into elite panic and digital control, until one governing claim comes into focus: power rules...
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