He names neoliberalism, technofuturism, world government, population replacement, and bureaucratic incompetence as partial theories, but argues the better method is to ask who benefits from the trends.
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WHO Benefits
He names neoliberalism, technofuturism, world government, population replacement, and bureaucratic incompetence as partial theories, but argues the better method is to ask who benefits from the trends.
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Jiang argues that rich pensioners benefit most from the decline trends: high property values, stock valuations, euthanasia freeing medical access, mass immigration as cheap labor, and other trends that either help them or do not hurt them.
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"So one major theory is the idea of neoliberalism. The idea of neoliberalism is the belief that all that matters in society, all that..."
"...analyze this. Whenever you have a problem, you always ask yourself, who benefits? Who is benefiting from this, right? So when we're talking about..."
"...and millions of different groups in society, and we just analyzed who benefits from all these trends that we discussed, the answer you would..."
"They need cooks. They need nurses, right? Immigrants. Do you guys want to be gardeners and cooks and laborers? You don't want to be,..."
"...but if you have the answer you always ask yourself um who benefits"
"...The United States is extremely powerful. It's really a question of who benefits from these changes. Even though the US empire will lose control..."
"...the issue of benefit. Okay. Okay. Like we have to negotiate who benefits. Okay. It doesn't make sense. And it's hard for nation states..."
"...need to understand is that the people in the different spheres who benefit from the system, first and foremost, their interest is maintaining that..."
"...need to understand is that the people in the different spheres who benefit from the system, first and foremost, their interest is maintaining that..."
"...estate developers can make money off this process, but the people who benefit the most are actually property owners, right? So if you already..."
"...He's the head of a group of generals who love war, who benefit from war, and as such, France becomes a military nation where..."
"Venice and Genoa are the ones who benefit the most from this trade because they are by the coast, and they are the ones..."
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Western decline looks like immigration crisis, unaffordable housing, assisted death, fake prosperity, debt, surveillance, and war.
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