Jiang diagnoses contemporary young men as socially and economically noncontributing because they are absorbed by gambling, pornography, video games, and empty college life rather than useful skill formation.
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"Okay. First of all, I do believe the draft is coming. But not only that, but I believe that the draft is coming to..."
"And then you have a national draft to teach you skills that you will need in order to contribute more effectively to the economy...."
"to play video games spend all their money on only fans and gamble everything on bitcoin okay and they don't really know anything useful..."
"...mentioned before how you used to live with your parents, play video games, and feel disconnected from the world. Was there typically a book,..."
"...So let's just sit back and watch only fans or play video games or gamble how the world will turn out. But as I..."
"...students, Chinese students don't even know what to do. They play video games every day. They just sit around and do nothing. Okay. So..."
"...we negotiate with bombs. He is treating it like it's a video game. He talks about it. And even their marketing of this war..."
"it's addictive it's just addictive as playing video games right this with this test system in place there are students as you say who..."
"...lot different than what a lot of the public sees in video games and TV shows. You do not respond—respond, excuse me— and when..."
"...dominant and Iraq was so weak that it was basically a video game. All right, it was just these pilots flying around, just bombing..."
"...know. I think 91 was on a real war. It's a video game where, you know, you have these. airplanes, high -tech airplanes, which..."
"...the zoomers are trapped on their. Or their phone or their video game console and this overprotective cocoon they live in where they barely..."
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