Glossary
Groups that shape policy because they make money from the process, here real estate developers and property owners.
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Vested interests
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you need to recognize that a nation is a collection of vested interests okay and it's this is this conflict among these best interests..."
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model
Jiang says national decline comes from elite overproduction, where competing vested interests become so absorbed in internal conflict that they will destroy their own civilization to win.
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Jiang claims Canadian housing policy is controlled by vested interests, especially property owners, who benefit when immigration increases demand while supply remains constrained.
diagnosis
Jiang says biotechnology could affect history, but he doubts contemporary societies can use transformative biological innovations well because bureaucracy and entrenched interests are organized to preserve the status quo.
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"...you need to recognize that a nation is a collection of vested interests okay and it's this is this conflict among these best interests..."
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"...um you have so much bureaucracy and you have so many vested interests interested in only maintaining the status quo that's very hard for..."
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"Okay, maybe they wanna make sure that the housing's not affordable maybe because they wanna make more money. Cause now there's like more competition..."
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"...what's best for the nation and the people. It's controlled by vested interests that will make money off the process, right? So as you..."
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"...bring a power. Those who are most loyal to you, those vested interests who are most loyal to you. And so therefore you have..."
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"...narrative here that yes, of course, all the countries have a vested interest in the strait being reopened, ought to be working together to..."
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"...than anybody else in the world and therefore has a bigger vested interest, you would think, in getting it reopened as soon as possible...."
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"...that there are certain there's a certain echelon of power, certain vested interests. That very, very badly want this war."
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"...it cannot happen that way a country is controlled by different vested interests different institutions these institutions have to align together in order for..."
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"...Therefore, the Venezuelan elite is very pro -American. They have a vested interest in negotiating a deal with America to protect their own interests...."
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"...anti -American. And if you were to bring in American private interests, then that would, um, undermine his constituents, constituencies. Um, uh, he has,..."
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"...uh his opponents um so so so so there are some vested interests very powerful people who want to provoke violence in order to..."
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