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Jiang argues that America is an empire and that empires historically generate wealth through three linked mechanisms: slavery, debt, and drugs.
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Wealth Generation
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...There's more inequality. There's more wealth. Okay? So what happens is wealth generation and inequality, corruption. And so people feel under stress. Okay? So..."
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"I mean, the reality is that America is an empire and never before in human history has an empire done any good in this..."
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"...There's more inequality. There's more wealth. Okay? So what happens is wealth generation and inequality, corruption. And so people feel under stress. Okay? So..."
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"...convert, but those who convert are able to see more rapid wealth generation, they're able to see more power generation, and they're able to..."
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"...very simple, is we are living in a lie. All this wealth generation, it's all a lie. It's not real. We just think it's..."
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"...that consumers want to buy. This is an era of rapid wealth generation. Then you move into financial capitalism. Which is a period of..."
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"...free labor just allows for more economic activity, and therefore, more wealth generation in society. All right? So, these are two competing visions of..."
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"...10 % GDP growth a year. And so you had massive wealth generation because of the shift from an agricultural -based society to a..."
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