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Dollar printing funds corruption, worsens inequality, and encourages young people either to opt out through lying flat or to gamble through Bitcoin, markets, and sports betting.
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Youth
Status positions require turnover; when people at the top do not fall off the mountaintop, young people become angry, unmotivated, and socially withdrawn.
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Jiang links contemporary low ambition and low fertility under Pax Americana to blocked social mobility, wealth monopolized by older generations, and fewer opportunities for young people.
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Status positions require turnover; when people at the top do not fall off the mountaintop, young people become angry, unmotivated, and socially withdrawn.
model
His alternative rat-utopia theory is status lock: abundance lets old people stay alive and in power, preventing younger people from ascending and converting blocked potential into violence.
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"What we've seen these past 20, 30 years is the scaling out, the popularization of innovation. Right? Where American technology is spread throughout the..."
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"I can never catch up. So I refuse to play this game. Either I refuse to play this game, so I quite quit, you..."
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"I know this is paradoxical, okay? So let me explain. With war, a lot of people die. With death comes opportunities that didn't exist..."
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"My kids aren't going to rise up in a social hierarchy. There are fewer and fewer economic opportunities. Young old people aren't dying, okay?..."
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"How this game works is people on the mountaintop have to fall off and die in order for other people to climb up. Does..."
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"And they're not dying. So what are young people doing? Tengping, Bailan, right? Quiet quitting. Lying flat. Because you don't see any opportunities. What..."
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"So in a world of abundance in a world of wealth who benefits the most? It's the elderly old people. Okay? Old people can..."
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"You get very agitated. You're like when is it my turn? And it's never going to come because the people at the top won't..."
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"...foot, the voice, the glow, the golden hair, the bloom of youth on his limbs, and his voice rang out with warnings once again...."
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"...to be Russian President Vladimir Putin's main contact in the Russian youth movement. CHS and Drukova spoke, but Drukova did not talk at all..."
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"...both alive in each other's arms, from the heady zest of youth to the soup of old age. But don't fault me, angry with..."
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"...the preconcerted signal was given in the Roman state. The Roman youth dashed in all directions to carry off the maidens who were present...."
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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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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