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He treats financialization as a sign of decline because stock markets and asset owners boom while real work, productivity, and ordinary jobs decline.
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He treats financialization as a sign of decline because stock markets and asset owners boom while real work, productivity, and ordinary jobs decline.
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Wealth and money are not the same thing: factories, workers, technology, and goods create real wealth, while stock-market investment can grow money without comparable productive capacity.
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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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"...At the same time, we talked about this last class, productivity, real economy, the amount of work you do, it's going way down. So,..."
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"Meaning that we live in a fake world. And the government responds by lying to people, okay? People know their lives suck. People know..."
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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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"And the real economy does not grow that fast. Okay. And the difference is stark. Thomas Piketty spent a lot of time going over..."
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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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"...market, you make $5. All right? But the return on the real economy is only 2%. Meaning, if you start a factory and you..."
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"...discovered, over time, is, the, financial economy, grows faster, than the real economy. Capital, grows faster, than manufacturing. Okay? So, if you look at,..."
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"Real economy, grows at, 2%. Alright? If things stay stable, over time, this will happen, to all societies. Capital, will grow faster, than the..."
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