Germany's health, accident, pension, child-labor, and worker protections as a state-unity instrument.
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welfare state
Germany's health, accident, pension, child-labor, and worker protections as a state-unity instrument.
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Jiang argues that a war-making nation-state must take care of workers and soldiers because the whole people contribute to military production and survival.
Saudi Arabia's high fertility and wealth are explained as an oil-funded welfare outlier reinforced by Muslim religious duty, not as the same civilizational mechanism as Israel.
Bismarck is presented as both anti-liberal man of iron and pragmatic welfare-state builder seeking a content unified Germany.
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"All right. So the idea here is that, listen, we're a German nation. Okay. And as a nation state, as a people, we must..."
"The real grievance of the war is the fact that we are a nation. We treat the worker as the insecurity of his existence...."
"So for the last graph that we talked about Israel and I've noticed that the Saudi Arabia that is also like at have not..."
"...oil around the world. What does it do? It creates a welfare state using this oil. So you're incentivized to have many children as..."
"Okay. Saudi Arabia just gets all its money from oil and that's it. It's trying to grow terrorism it's trying to develop its human..."
"A man of violence, a man of sternness. But he was an extremely pragmatic man. And his ambition was to have a unified Germany..."
"So what they will do is institute the first welfare state, the first socialist state in the world. Look at this. They have health..."
"Chancellor because he gave a speech in which he said that the position of pressure in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism..."
"...safe. Okay? So the aristocrats will actually promote and support the welfare state because of social cohesion. Okay? All right. A couple of questions...."
"Russia and Ukraine will become a welfare state for the European Union, and Putin is very happy to have that happen. This means that..."
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