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Jiang says the rich destabilize hierarchy because they are trained to seek maximum outcomes in a zero-sum hierarchy where only a few can be at the top.
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Jiang says the rich destabilize hierarchy because they are trained to seek maximum outcomes in a zero-sum hierarchy where only a few can be at the top.
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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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"...way that I frame everything, you have poor and you have rich. And as discussed, they live in their own world, and they don't..."
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"...stable, but the main problem is this system. Okay? It's the rich that's problematic. And the reason why is that the rich are taught..."
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"...So eventually, you get into a situation where there are too rich people, too many rich people and not enough powerful positions. And this..."
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"...You understand? Okay? Okay. Who's more dangerous to you, a few rich people or millions of poor people? No. No, no, no, no, no...."
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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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"...food needs, and the reason why is that they've become so rich these past few decades that the populations have blown up. And as..."
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"...prisoner, I'll kill their families back at home. South Koreans are rich. They are used to democracy. They're used to individual rights. So if..."
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"...very simple way of saying this is that if you're a rich person in Russia you're incentivized to work with rich people in Iran..."
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"...as oil, gas, and coal, and somehow they're going to get rich on that. I would bet against that, my friend. People used to..."
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"...will allow is for anyone to come to America and get rich, as long as they work hard. And this will create the greatest..."
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"...after it. They never give up on going after one resource rich nation or region after the next. So you have Russia, Ukraine, Iran,..."
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"...of strangely correlated that we always seem to be attacking resource rich regions. And so this is a constant which has given us colonialism,..."
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