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Jiang says the rich destabilize hierarchy because they are trained to seek maximum outcomes in a zero-sum hierarchy where only a few can be at the top.
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Jiang says the rich destabilize hierarchy because they are trained to seek maximum outcomes in a zero-sum hierarchy where only a few can be at the top.
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He argues that most schools do not merely fail to teach these purposes; they produce the opposite effect by weakening reading, turning collaboration into zero-sum competition, and making students hate learning.
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Status is a zero-sum game: one winner means others lose, and confinement turns status competition into repeated violence.
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He argues that wealth and fame can expand, but power is finite and zero-sum, so too many elites competing for power drive social collapse.
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"about, you know, like so self -control, resilience, and the ability to look inward and better understand what you're good at. Okay? So it..."
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"Why are there social changes? This looks like a system of equilibrium where because of parenting, people know their place, and people know how..."
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"...expectations. Okay? And this is a problem because power, it's a zero -sum game. Okay? Hierarchy is a zero -sum game. So only a..."
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"to like actually love learning and you have to like know how to learn for yourself so these are the three basic purposes of..."
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"...in school it's a competition where you believe that it's a zero -sum game so for you to get ahead you need school over..."
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"out the pages and you throw it in the sky just to signal your liberation your liberation and you're like i never ever want..."
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"...they are. You understand? So status is what we call a zero -sum game. I win, you lose, okay? There can only be one..."
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"...be a finite resource. In fact, it's what we call a zero -sum game. So, for example, in this classroom, there can only be..."
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"If everyone has the power, no one has any power. Okay? So, what happens over time is that all these people who believe they..."
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"Because he failed the Kejiu. Okay? So, that's the idea of the overproduction of the elite. And he discovered this principle using mathematically modeling..."
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"...who want to be the ones in power. Power is a zero sum game. And therefore, when you have elite overproduction, they have to..."
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"...have, the elite have many, many kids, the power is a zero sum game. It's a hierarchy. And so this leads to the idea..."
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