diagnosis
In an oligarchic, rent-seeking system, working hard and following rules can transfer energy to parasitic elites instead of producing fair advancement.
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Work
Jiang says we could not build the pyramids today because modern work lacks the religious devotion, shared vision, care, and purpose that organized ancient labor.
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diagnosis
He argues that poor parents command children because their children need to know how to take orders from police, bosses, and family networks.
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Jiang says we could not build the pyramids today because modern work lacks the religious devotion, shared vision, care, and purpose that organized ancient labor.
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Top-down process-oriented management produces worse results because workers focus on steps and budget rather than the vision of the finished work.
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Over-bureaucratization produces quiet quitting and lying flat because workers feel alienated, powerless, overworked, and machine-like inside organizations.
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He predicts economic collapse as people feel less invested in systems where they cannot speak up, become less willing to work, and lose belief in the system.
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Poverty exists, in Jiang's model, because powerful people need artificial misery to make money feel valuable and to make work feel necessary.
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Jiang argues the real value in the system is human work, while money is an incentive technology that induces labor.
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"All right. If mass organization are the primary cause of imperial decay, why are unlimited population, unlimited land, so there's reasons that US TechNet..."
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"want to work hard, but if there's an elite that is parasitic, that is rent -seeking, then by working hard, you're just transferring your..."
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"But if you're a rich person, the way that you get along with others, the way that you maximize your outcome is by negotiating..."
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"They're playing a different game from poor to rich. Poor kids. Okay? So let's go back and look at parents. Okay? So poor parents..."
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"And if you fight back, the police will probably put you in jail. Okay? So it's very important that you accept authority. You don't..."
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"...the pharaoh would in his lifetime undertake a lot of public works projects okay including canals okay so that so the pyramids were just..."
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"...in a way that people saw the same image and they work towards that image today we focus on something called top -down process..."
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"...to produce a great piece of art you stay and you work really hard at it okay but in school what do we do..."
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"...create eternity today you try to do the least amount of work for the most amount of pay right so the idea today is..."
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"...quitting. In China, it's called or. Okay? People don't want to work anymore. Lying flat, let it rot. People don't want to work anymore...."
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"...they feel less invested in the system. They're less willing to work. Therefore, you have economic collapse. People don't believe in the system anymore...."
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"The one who has, don't want to share the same."
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