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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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Piketty
Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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Financialism begins when lending, investing, and rent seeking become more profitable than entrepreneurship or producing real goods.
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Jiang uses Piketty to contrast financial capital returns with real-economy returns, arguing that young people invest in assets because real work is less rewarded.
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"...Um. Is proposed by an economist. A French economist named Thomas Piketty. Piketty. Okay. And he wrote a book called Capital in the 21st..."
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"So you're trying to generate as much money as possible. But what we discussed last class that's very important is. Wealth and money are..."
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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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"...not grow that fast. Okay. And the difference is stark. Thomas Piketty spent a lot of time going over income tax. Just looking at..."
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"How is it possible for the borderlands, which, again, is only a fraction of the wealth, the population and the resources of the empire,..."
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"...So, there's this very famous French economist. His name is Thomas Piketty. And he wrote a book called Capital in the 21st Century. It's..."
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"Does that make sense? So, the example is, okay, there are five restaurants in Beijing. They're obviously trying to compete against each other for..."
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"Okay? On average, if you put $100 in the stock market, you make $5. All right? But the return on the real economy is..."
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"...theory. The second theory that we have is, you know, Thomas Piketty wrote this great book called Capital in the 21st Century. I'm sure..."
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"...Peter Turchin tells us we're screwed. Then you look at Thomas Piketty, and you have the monopolization of capital, the consolidation of capital in..."
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"Yeah, well, Thomas Piketty, he made, well, in the book here, Capital Referred to, he made a point that in, that the United States..."
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"...really working. Okay. So that's the idea of financialization. And what Piketty argues is that this is just a natural cycle. This is just..."
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