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The lecture defines bronze as the economic equivalent of oil in this world: the basic material of the economy, dependent on geographically scarce copper and tin.
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Jiang argues that the first Civil War arose from the political consequences of divergent regional economies, not simply from the North deciding to abolish slavery on moral grounds.
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He says billionaires make no sense because money is meant to circulate as a mechanism of exchange and transaction rather than sit accumulated by a few people.
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Jiang argues that corporations are using government subsidies to build data centers, extract community resources, and pass the resulting costs on to consumers.
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"extra cost of these data centers, they're extremely expensive to run and they suck up all communities, fresh water and electricity resources. Americans are..."
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"And of course, remember, these are the steppes. So, for Mycenaean Greece, you also had the Mediterranean. And over here are the islands of..."
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"Copper is mainly found in Cyprus, and Crete, and also in Anatolia. Now, meaning, and what this means is, in order to make bronze,..."
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"And the difference is that the North was very industrial and the South was agricultural. And because the economies were different, the way they..."
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"It was an inefficient use of manpower. And at the start of the war, they only had about nine million people, okay? But what's..."
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"If you're poor, what happens? You become more poor, okay? So, as a poor person, what do you think? You think that life is..."
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"You use money, you should spend your money. If it's all in the bank, what's the point of that? Okay? So, having billionaires is..."
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"...is the return to the American system or national system of political economy, which is called American system because it was pioneered by Alexander..."
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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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