diagnosis
Jiang joins immigration pressure to inflation and housing unaffordability, treating Canada as the stark case where immigration rises, housing supply stays flat, and young people lose the dream of owning a home.
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Young People
Jiang says young people cannot overthrow gerontocracy because they are biologically trained to respect and obey elders, which is why elders can send them to wars.
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diagnosis
In answer to the student, Jiang says locals suffer even more than immigrants because immigration adds job and price pressure to an already declining economy.
prediction
He predicts gerontocracy will demand immigrant and student labor to care for elderly people, more prisons because elderly people fear criminals, and recurring wars because elderly people can send young people to die.
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Jiang says young people cannot overthrow gerontocracy because they are biologically trained to respect and obey elders, which is why elders can send them to wars.
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He says gerontocratic control can persist for a long time because as one elderly cohort dies, the next aging cohort replaces it, and wars kill young people rather than old people.
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Young people refuse to have children not only because economic opportunities are limited, but because baby boomers refuse to give up status.
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Jiang maps rat utopia back onto the Peloponnesian War: from 431 to 404 BCE, the political world ends much the same, but many young people die in purposeless violence.
diagnosis
He argues that the American dream has died for young people and has been replaced by a defensive desire to avoid debt.
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"in inflation okay so there's something called the cpi the consumer price index which is measuring the price of basic goods like food and..."
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"are now unaffordable this is a chart that shows you economic growth as compared to housing prices so as you can see united states..."
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"this would be the case why is it that that you have a policy of letting in more immigrants, but you don't have a..."
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"All the Indian immigrants that you have mentioned took a part of the Canadian population. How about having the risk of Indians took over..."
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"...declining, and it's a pretty rapid decline. So it's harder for young people to find jobs, especially with immigrants coming into the country, right?..."
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"Microchip implants, guys! Right? Isn't that great? You, before you had cell phones, then you had, uh, facial recognition. And in the future, you..."
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"...governed by elderly people. Elderly people are perfectly happy to send young people to die for their glory. All right? Okay. Pretty depressing, but..."
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"Yeah. That's actually a great question. So what can young people do about this? And the answer is nothing. Okay? And the reason why..."
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"...if there's a war it's not old people who die it's young people who die. Okay? But good question. Okay. Any more questions? Okay...."
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"...we're living in rat utopia. And quite honestly, this is why young people now refuse to have children. It's not just because the economic..."
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"...not die. If they do not die it is impossible for young people to ascend into power and status. And so they have all..."
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"...different from 404 BCE. The only difference is a lot of young people died. Okay? There were wars against each other. So that's my..."
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Western decline looks like immigration crisis, unaffordable housing, assisted death, fake prosperity, debt, surveillance, and war.
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The lecture begins with Canada's immigration crisis and ends with a theory of Western collapse.
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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