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The Beatitudes mean the spiritually poor, mourning, meek, merciful, pure-hearted, peacemakers, and persecuted are closer to the kingdom than the wealthy and powerful.
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He says a few rich people are more dangerous than millions of poor people because rich people are united while poor people do not know how to unite.
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Robespierre's early life is framed as a petit-bourgeois orphaned responsibility story that prepares his idealism, Rousseauian ambition, and defense of the poor.
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Rome's poor were pulled into long foreign wars, lost farms to debt, and were displaced into cities while rich landowners shifted land toward export cash crops.
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The Gracchi brothers proposed land reform in which Rome would buy rich occupants out of illegally held common land and redistribute it to the poor for subsistence and food security.
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He says a few rich people are more dangerous than millions of poor people because rich people are united while poor people do not know how to unite.
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Jiang concludes that in the real world the poor will always lose and the rich will always win, no matter what happens.
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"are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted blessed are..."
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"So this is his message to people, right? What matters is the spark inside of you. It doesn't matter how wealthy you are, it..."
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"Okay? And this is true for all prophets. Does that make sense? All right. French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre. Okay. So some basic biographical details..."
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"...lawyer, as I mentioned, he spends all his time defending the poor and the weak. He's a champion of the oppressed. The Estates General..."
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"...the best and brightest were in competition with each other, the poor were suffering. Okay? So the first problem is land. Remember, during the..."
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"And there's a problem because first of all, the poor didn't have any land in order to grow food. So they were forced into..."
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"So in 146 BCE, after Rome had become an empire and it had defeated all its enemies, these two factions start to emerge and..."
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"...buys out this land, it will then redistribute it to the poor so the poor will have like a social safety system. They'll be..."
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"...do you? Right? Peace just means like tomorrow, you'll still be poor and hopeless. Right? But war, it's an opportunity for a new world...."
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". Listen. In the real world, the poor will always lose, the rich will always win. No matter what happens."
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"...a dictatorship. Everyone worships me. It's a cult personality. But we're poor. And the rest of the world is in conflict, right? Europe is..."
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"Well, my people are poor. They're not afraid to die. In fact, I've sent thousands of them to go to Ukraine to fight for..."
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