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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "losing my wallet or whatever. I just pay everything online. You can do all sorts of like really complex transactions very easily nowadays. So..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "losing my wallet or whatever. I just pay everything online. You can do all sorts of like really complex transactions very easily nowadays. So..."
Jiang says programmable digital currency would be much more dangerous in the United States than in China because Americans are accustomed to civil liberties, and a programmable monetary system would let authorities directly regulate behavior through spending controls.
Jiang argues that digital currency can be programmed to track behavior and restrict purchases such as gambling, alcohol, or cigarettes in the name of public policy and health.
"losing my wallet or whatever. I just pay everything online. You can do all sorts of like really complex transactions very easily nowadays. So..."
"So I'm lucky in that that hasn't happened to me. But you know, there are people who face this issue in China. And so..."
"more healthy. person. But at the end of the day, that destroys the social contract, right? That destroys all your individual agency that destroys..."
Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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