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He argues that the deeper purpose of a draft is not simply to fight wars but to reorganize society and discipline young men into economically useful roles.
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Young men
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Jiang diagnoses contemporary young men as socially and economically noncontributing because they are absorbed by gambling, pornography, video games, and empty college life rather than useful skill formation.
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Jiang explains Yamnaya violence through the incentives of young men without wives or wealth: they seek to steal other people's wives and property.
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Jiang argues that war can function as a demographic-political release valve by killing surplus young men who might otherwise become a major source of domestic unrest and revolution.
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Jiang argues that even under demographic decline, discontented young men remain a major source of instability, so sending them to war can still function as a way to defer or suppress rebellion.
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"...society in a certain way. So in America today, what do young men do? Well, they buy Bitcoin. They gamble online. They're on OnlyFans...."
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"...draft is something that they need in order to basically train young men to be effective contributors to the economy and it's something that..."
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"to play video games spend all their money on only fans and gamble everything on bitcoin okay and they don't really know anything useful..."
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"...to kill off the young people because you got too many young men not enough jobs not enough you know young females to go..."
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"...but at the same time, you also have tremendous discontentment among young men, right? So your options are you just let them sit around..."
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"...a hundred men, a hundred women. You have a hundred men, young men, who have no wealth and no wives, okay? So what do..."
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"...their medical care will always be protected. That's why they send young men to war because they want to maintain their status. So what..."
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"...U.S. this summer? Do you have any general addition advice for young men? Thank you."
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"...lot of political tension back at home, especially if you're drafting young men to fight this war. Okay? And if that were to happen,..."
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"...justify a control grid where you need to make sure that young men know their patriotic duty and they're willing to go and die..."
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"...likely that America will soon introduce a national draft and force young men to sign up for the draft to go fight"
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"...lost at home, because you had too many people, too many young men protesting on the streets, too many rebels. If we want to..."
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