Paper, printmaking, compass, and gunpowder revolutionized world history by enabling capitalism, mass literacy, exploration, colonization, and mass politics through gunpowder warfare.
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Dave asks Jiang what he is missing.
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"...because remember, in the 15th century, Gutenberg created something called the printing press in Europe. And because of the printing press, you're now able..."
"the very idea of the printing press made available all these books, all this knowledge that wasn't available before. And now people could just..."
"Because when you have the musket, now individual soldiers do matter. Okay? Before, it was the knight who was the main weapon in the..."
"...like almost like a one to one metaphor for like money printing. You know what I mean? Even if we're doing ours on computers..."
"...that America is addicted to the petrodollar. It's addicted to money. Printing. It's addicted to the world consuming US Treasuries, buying up US Treasuries,..."
"...that and switch over to the petro status because we've been printing too much money to redeem anything in gold and so now we..."
"...and silver were going to reap the benefits of excessive money printing. The Fed just printing money like crazy, overvalued markets, global unrest. It's..."
"...the third thing, the university of the US dollar leads to printing dollars. Okay? Or just basically corruption. Where because America is able to..."
"...something happened, which is that China bailed out the world by printing all this money to build infrastructure for all China, okay? So China..."
"printing machine called the Bank of England they financed uh Europe to fight against Napoleon seven times and they lost six times but ultimately..."
"...the reserve currency in the world. And we can just keep printing money and making more bombs and armaments. But as soon as that..."
"...finance are using derivatives, media weaponization, index passive flows, and money printing to prop up the stock market, which is asset stripping the country...."
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