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Students add extreme wealth inequality, self-indulgence, inability to express opinions, and rising bureaucratic power as signs of decline, and Jiang endorses them.
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Wealth inequality
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Mercantile trade creates a middle class, while extraction produces mismanagement and wealth inequality.
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"it like extreme wealth inequality yes exactly great extreme wealth equality yes self indulgence self indulgence yes um not being able to express uh..."
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"increased bureaucracy a power like bureaucrats having a lot of power"
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"Second is finances, okay? So historically, Jews have these financial networks all across Europe. And so if you need a lot of money to..."
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"...lead to mismanagement and this will lead to a lot of wealth inequality. And that was the issue facing Spain. But if you focus..."
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"...some serious problems in society that need to be addressed, especially wealth inequality, especially corruption, especially debt among among the poor. And so now's..."
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"...to distract people. I mean, Americans are suffering under tremendous wealth, wealth inequality. There's tremendous corruption in Washington. The government doesn't really work anymore..."
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"...And given the reality that we live in today, given the wealth inequality, given the fact that you have these destructive immigration policies, given..."
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"...China into its system. But because of that, it was causing wealth inequality in China. And that's why the Ming Dynasty will shut down..."
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"...in IBC. We know there are classes. We know there is wealth inequality. But,"
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