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The universality of the U.S. dollar made a piece of paper socially equivalent to gold and organized life around accumulation even when more money no longer changes consumption.
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US Dollar
He says America makes wealth infinite by replacing gold with the U.S.
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He says America makes wealth infinite by replacing gold with the U.S. dollar as a conceptual wealth standard that anyone can play for.
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Bretton Woods establishes the world game by making the U.S. dollar the reserve currency, with other currencies deriving value through their relationship to it.
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He argues that America made China rich in order to make China use U.S. dollars, granting market access, investment, technology, education, and military protection.
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The U.S. dollar plays the modern role Jiang assigns to bronze: universal, value-storing, mobile, and enabling rapid global capitalism.
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Bronze, gold, and the U.S. dollar are stronger capital forms than seashells, cattle, grain, women, drugs, or oil because they better satisfy universality, value storage, and mobility.
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"And this shows you how science has become the new religion of the world. And if you think about it, the scientists that run..."
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"So that if you take your U.S. dollars, you can go anywhere in the world. And buy yourself a villa. Or enjoy a nice..."
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"very wealthy okay so america is not just the country of america it's really the western hemisphere and as such has unlimited population and..."
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"that the frontier has been settled, now that the borders have been controlled, a few people are now controlling all the money, which leads..."
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"dollar the reserve currency of the world, right? What does that mean? It means that every other currency has to be derived from the..."
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"It's only valuable because people want to use it. So, now Nixon has to go and create demand for the U.S. dollar, right? So,..."
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"That's number one. Number two is America gives China FDI technology education, all right? Imagine what happens. America gives foreign investment to China, gives..."
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"It should make China use U.S. dollars, okay? It's that simple, okay? So now when China trades with the world, it gets U.S. dollars..."
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"So in other words, bronze became the first real universal currency in the world. And this allowed for rapid development. Rapid globalization in the..."
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"What do you do then? What you do is, you bury him with gifts, with gold, with money, okay? And so, it's a monument..."
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"It doesn't really work, in terms of universality, sort of value, and mobility, but bronze does, okay? And after bronze, gold does. And then..."
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"...would lose its empire. Its empire is based purely on the US dollar, the petrodollar, which is a Ponzi scheme. If it did not..."
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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