diagnosis
Jiang explicitly translates the envy line into a diagnosis of materialism: if goods are finite possessions, every gain implies someone else's loss.
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Scarcity
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Key Notes
diagnosis
Jiang opens the closing list by treating meritocracy as intense competition over fewer and fewer resources within a declining order.
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model
Because money can be created out of thin air, the system must also destroy money through crashes or wars in order to maintain scarcity and keep people working.
prediction
Techno-martialism is Jiang's forecast that resource-rich nations will build AI surveillance states to marshal scarce resources and control people, producing a class split where elites have freedom and the bottom become slaves or serfs.
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definition
Jiang defines water stress as using as much or more water than the environment produces, then uses extreme Middle East ratios to argue that water is the decisive vulnerability.
model
Resources are not necessary for success because poor players can cheat, steal, beg, trade, work for free, and become creative under pressure.
diagnosis
Once banks can print money, poverty cannot be explained simply by lack of money; scarcity becomes the next object of suspicion.
diagnosis
Power works by making students believe money is scarce even after they are told money is an infinitely printable number.
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"it means your actions, if you are operating in a sphere where there is a limited amount of resources, there has to be winners..."
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"Yeah, so what this is saying is we're materialistic and all we care about is material accumulation and so it becomes a zero -sum..."
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"on on this con on this idea and also i'll get into trouble because you guys will name names and then he'll interview me..."
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"...of money is to get people to work and that means scarcity. And so the way you do that is by creating a um..."
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"Okay? It's wealth destruction because you printed too much money. So you need you need to destroy this money. Second way of course is..."
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"past -Americana, which is a secular, global idea, to one that is much more nationalistic, that is more focused on community and nation. That..."
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"Alright? Also, the other thing I have to say this, okay, is if you look at the American military, it's corrupt. So, this is..."
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"So, you want to be below 100 % to be sustainable. Ideally, you want to be at 10%. Okay? If it goes above 100%,..."
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"I keep on telling you guys, you don't need resources. You can cheat. You can steal. You can beg. Alright? Okay? Does that make..."
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"Okay? Like, if you just go back to the World Game, whichever team starts off with the least resources are often the most creative..."
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"Do you understand? And this system is what we call today central banking. And what you will learn in this class is central banking..."
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"So, we don't have limited resources. We have scarcity. Okay? Right? So, that is the common answer. Okay. The common answer is scarcity. We..."
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