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Jiang says medicine and sanitation developed because the nation-state willed science and technology toward growing populations needed for war.
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"So as you can see, because of the rise of the nation state, we had to kill more and more people in order to..."
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"...to grow the population. Okay? That's why we had medicine and sanitation, okay? These innovations happened because the nation state willed these things to..."
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"...give out. If it's winter, you will literally freeze to death. Sanitation breaks down. There's no more clean water. It'll be complete chaos. And..."
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"...systematically eliminated from the system. But at a time of improved sanitation, of improved hospital care, then people who should have died are living...."
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"...unfortunately, if your demographics increase, but you don't have improvements in sanitation, in health, in nutrition, well what happens? You have something called the..."
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"...it's really, really unsafe in the cities. Diseases, malnutrition, lack of sanitation cause people to die really, really young. Also during this time, because..."
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"...Starting in about the year 1800, because of improvements in nutrition, sanitation, the population explodes. Alright? And this is true for, throughout Europe. And..."
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"...for China. And the Islamic Empire. And the reason why is sanitation and hygiene. So in China and in the former Islamic Empire. Their..."
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"They have plumbing. They have sanitation. They even have air conditioning. They have these towers that sort of like trap hot air. People live..."
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