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Jiang says Statius treats wastefulness and greed as opposite extremes that collapse into the same moral structure.
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Waste
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "sadius why are you in the terrace of avarice and sadius replied okay you may think that i was greedy in life but i..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "sadius why are you in the terrace of avarice and sadius replied okay you may think that i was greedy in life but i..."
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A student suggests alchemy's fraud lies in giving false hope and making people waste their lives on what is unreal.
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A student says fraud wastes imagination twice over: deceivers spend imagination on cheating and everyone else spends imagination on avoiding being cheated.
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A pyramid economy means centralized planning, where Pharaoh and palace coordinate state resources; Jiang says such centralization produces inequality, corruption, and waste.
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"sadius why are you in the terrace of avarice and sadius replied okay you may think that i was greedy in life but i..."
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"Because it gives people false hope, and such that people waste their life pursuing something that is not real."
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"A lot of wasted energy. Okay. People wasting their imagination defrauding people and people wasting their imagination trying not to get cheated."
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"Right? It was to control the Nile. And they failed. So this creates, first of all, a crisis of faith. Okay? A crisis of..."
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"...just easier to do. Okay? And the third problem is just waste. It's not very efficient. So basically a pyramid, a pyramid economy is..."
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"...doesn't really work. Second is the centralization creates inequality, corruption, and waste. And third is religious belief can only lead to the corruption of..."
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"...through the green boughs, like a hunter who so used would waste his life in chasing after birds, my more than father said to..."
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"...the tree you left behind, received the power that makes me waste away. All of these souls who, grieving, sing because their appetite was..."
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"...that is. Yeah, you're absolutely right in that Dante does not waste words."
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"...single language cannot serve the world. Leave him alone. Let's not waste time and talk."
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"...nervous system was really relaxing. And genuinely, a lot of, like, waste product from my body was being expelled."
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"...in mind to open Troy to the Greeks and lay her waste. He trusted to come. Courage nerd for either end to weave his..."
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