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He identifies postwar American consumer capitalism as a unique system that grew the global population from about two billion to about eight billion and generated enormous wealth, including in China.
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Wealth
He says America makes wealth infinite by replacing gold with the U.S.
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Jiang defines wealth as consciousness and attention: a vase becomes valuable when focused consciousness is stored in it, and money or capital extracts and stores that consciousness as wealth.
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He says America makes wealth infinite by replacing gold with the U.S. dollar as a conceptual wealth standard that anyone can play for.
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Jiang says the American founders made the nation a game where citizens are players maximizing wealth, and that personal wealth-seeking becomes national energy and growth.
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Wealth tends to lower energy, openness, and cohesion because elites stop working, exploit others, become arrogant, refuse correction, and atomize society through corruption.
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He says that in 2025-2026, some parents' wealth weakens student motivation because school success is no longer the only route to material security.
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Attention is energy and true wealth; whoever focuses attention can use imagination to construct reality as they want it.
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The pearl parable teaches that fearlessness and refusal to obey convention are what make a person wealthy and powerful.
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"the recognition that to fight wars, you need more people who want to kill themselves for the nation. And to get them to do..."
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"...made a lot of people more wealthy. Think of the tremendous wealth that China has generated in the past 30, 40 years because of..."
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"...perception. Not anyone else, us, okay? So in other words, the wealth in this society, Okay? So in other words, the wealth in this..."
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"...so in other words it is our conscious attention that creates wealth in this in this world and it's really money or capital that..."
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"...revolutionize the world is make the u.s dollar the standard of wealth in the world and because the u.s dollar is just a concept..."
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"...is a player. And the citizen is trying to maximize his wealth. And through this process of maximizing his wealth, trying to get as..."
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"they see themselves as a team are they willing to sacrifice themselves for each other are they a family okay so that's the idea..."
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"don't want to work anymore they rather just exploit the other people okay the people and because the people are being enslaved they're too..."
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"That's why students work hard. If students work hard, teachers are motivated to teach well. And now you're having a time when, you know,..."
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"...energy. So what they want is our energy. Okay? That's true wealth. If they're able to focus our energy, capture our imagination, they can..."
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"how seductive this is right okay um okay so this one's a bit long so so i'll simply simplify it okay again it is..."
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"What matters is your fearlessness, okay? Just go do it, man. Seize it, and you'll become wealthy. That's what this world is about, okay?..."
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