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War, depression, or economic collapse used to erase stored security and force renewed work.
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Wealth destruction
War, depression, or economic collapse used to erase stored security and force renewed work.
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Debt, inequality, poverty, war, depression, and artificial boom-bust cycles create anxiety that forces people to refocus their energy on work and wealth creation.
prediction
Jiang predicts or warns that, when wealth makes people lazy and complacent, the system will destroy the economy and start World War III to recreate anxiety, work, and focus.
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War is framed as wealth destruction that helps preserve the illusion of scarcity and money's value, not as a natural fight over scarce resources.
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Wars are framed not as fights over genuinely scarce resources but as wealth-destruction mechanisms that preserve money's value.
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"...work even harder, all right? The third mechanism of anxiety is wealth destruction. What is wealth destruction? Simple, war or depression, right? When the..."
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"...wealth creation. And you do that by a constant process of wealth destruction. All right? So, but the problem, of course, is that when..."
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"will show you, the great innovation of the past hundred years is to convince people that money is God. Money is both nothing and..."
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"is to accumulate more capital no no no guys the point of capitalism is to focus the energies of the peasants okay because the..."
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"...by destroying wealth, by creating a cycle of constant death and destruction. All right? Any questions? Clear, guys? All right. So, great. So next..."
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"Right? Why are there wars in the world then? Because they're fighting over scarce resources, right? I already told you. Scarcity is a lie...."
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"Why are there wars in the world then? Because they're fighting over scarce resources, right? I already told you. Scarcity is a lie. The..."
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"...fight a war, you get lucky, you can become pretty wealthy. Wealth destruction and generation. Okay? So, you're destroying wealth, which allows for more..."
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The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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