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Jiang and the students use zero-sum game for a material order where one person's gain is imagined as another's loss.
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zero-sum game
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Jiang's shorthand for the material-world illusion that makes sharing look like loss and therefore generates envy.
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A competition where one participant winning means the other loses; Jiang applies it to status.
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Jiang's base model for geopolitics: nation-states pursue optimal strategies against one another in a contest where one player's gain pressures another.
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The money game persists because it gives short-term military and national advantages even though it destroys people and societies over the long term.
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"Yes? Humans are obsessed with zero -sum games. Exactly."
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"it means your actions, if you are operating in a sphere where there is a limited amount of resources, there has to be winners..."
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"...care about is material accumulation and so it becomes a zero -sum game. Right? Because if I have this, you can't have that. Right?..."
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"...the material world, sharing can be punished because it's a zero sum game."
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"If someone has an apple, you don't have it. If you have that apple, someone else doesn't have it. But in the spiritual world,..."
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"...see each individual nation -state as a player in a zero -sum game to maximize its individuality. And so each player would have its..."
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"It's because you refuse to work, okay? So the game is set up so that we're focused on making money. Then the question then..."
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"...gives you huge advantages, okay? So think of... It's a zero -sum game. So think of an Olympic game where, okay, everyone's going and..."
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"The American Empire and how the American Empire changed this game, right? So what the American Empire will do is they will add U.S...."
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"...are. You understand? So status is what we call a zero -sum game. I win, you lose, okay? There can only be one winner...."
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"...they'll help others as well, right? So rather than a zero -sum game where there's only finite resources, generosity creates infinite love, okay? Does..."
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"...that we've moved to a patriarchy and where status is zero -sum game, then you're forced to play games in order to achieve status,..."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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Mehdi Hasan does not let Jiang enjoy the Nostradamus frame.
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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