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Today I want to examine

why you Chinese students behave the way

you do. Okay. So believe it or not, but

the way that you behave, the game that

you are playing,

it's strange. It's weird. So I'll point

out three things that you do that don't

really make any sense.

The first thing that you do is you spend

a lot of your time learning English.

In fact, you probably spend more time

learning English than you do learning

Chinese.

That's weird. And I've asked Chinese

students before why

they are so focused on learning English.

And their answers usually are, I want to

learn knowledge. I want to go abroad. I

want to communicate. I want to use the

internet. That's not really a good

explanation. Okay. So, that's one thing

that's weird. Second thing that's weird

is

you're obsessed with making money,

especially US dollars.

Okay. And the third thing that's weird

is that your goal in life is to

immigrate to a western country, uh,

specifically United States, right? You

all want to go United States for

college, get a degree, and hopefully

stay there, get a good job. But as we

discussed before, that's strange because

you are much higher status in China.

You're much more likely to get a good

job. You're much more likely to marry a

bit of a woman than you are United

States where the game is rigged against

you. Okay? So, this sort of behavior is

weird. If you think about it, what you

should be really trying to do is master

Chinese. Because once you master Chinese

and given your family background, given

the fact that your family is often

wealthy and well connected in China, you

can climb up pretty high in China. Okay?

So if you want if you learn Chinese,

you're far better able to communicate

yourself. You're far more uh likely to

gain respect and status in China. Okay?

But instead you learn English. Um US

dollars doesn't make any sense. What you

really want is status,

right? What you really want is to be

well respected. You want a prestigious

job. You want to marry a beautiful

woman. You want to have lots and lots of

children. That's what you really want.

But instead, you're really focused on

obtaining US dollars. That's kind of

strange. Now, the last thing we said was

immigration. You if you go to um United

States, it's really a rigged game

against you, right?

The most that you can hope to obtain is

maybe become an engineer or professor if

you're really really smart, but you're

not going to achieve political power.

You're not going to become a CEO of a

major company. All right? So, the

situation as it is, it's really weird

where the best in Brighton China, they

just want to be common people in the

United States or Britain or Canada. So,

it's a really weird game. And so the

question we want I want to look at today

is how was this game constructed? Why do

we play this game? And the answer I will

show you is because of the British.

Okay. The British

Empire

create this game that ultimately the

Americans inherit and which the entire

world world's played today because

America is the global superpower. Um,

okay. Does that make sense? All right.

So, first I want to go into some history

and explain to you how we got to where

we are. So, this is the map of the

Spanish Empire at the height of its

power. As you can see, the Spanish

Empire cover the entire globe. Okay, so

this is a spa small nation in Spain and

it was able to really cover the entire

world. So how was this accomplished?

Okay, so the first thing you need to

understand is that for most of its

history, Europe was a very poor place

and in order for it to obtain wealth, it

had to trade with the world.

Specifically, it wanted spices from what

what they call the East Indies, okay,

Southeast Asia. Um, at this time in

history, the main power were the Muslims

who are here, okay? And if you if you

want to trade with um East Asia, you

have to go through the Muslims.

And at this point in history, uh Spain

is Muslim. It's it's a it's a place

called uh Andu Lassa. But then the

Christians were able to reconquer Spain.

And so the Muslims decided that we'll

just blockade you or if you want to

trade with us, we will charge you a lot

of levies. Okay? And so now the Spanish

and the Portuguese are forced to look

for new routes to these indies where the

spices are. Remember at this time in

history spices are the most valuable

commodity. They're actually worth more

than gold. Okay, I'm talking like

cinnamon, nutmeg, pepperc corn. Okay,

these spices are extremely valuable

commodities. In fact, one ship um if you

if you're able to bring bring one ship

of these spices back to Europe, well,

you had intergenerational wealth. Okay,

you become one of the wealthiest people

in Europe. That's how valuable these

spices were. And [snorts] so now the the

Spanish and the Portuguese have no

choice but to discover new routes to

these indies. So they went this way. And

this is hard because

um Africa is not really hospitable.

There are a lot of viruses, diseases in

Africa. So they they started to go so

they start to explore all around the

world and they went to North America and

South America. And when they went to

North and South America, they discovered

that there were already peoples, the

Aztecs, the Incas living there and they

had a lot of wealth because these were

empires and they could easily conquer.

And so they set up these colonies all

around

um South America and a lot of silver was

now being transported back to Spain. And

so overnight, Spain became extremely

wealthy. But as we discussed last class,

if you become too wealthy and too

powerful, you changed as a people.

Before you were energetic, you were

open. You were cohesive. That's what

made you an empire. But now all this

wealth, you become insular. You become

arrogant and you become extremely

closeminded. Okay? You become lazy. And

so the Spanish, they had all this wealth

and they decided that they really don't

they want to work anymore. Okay? So, so

what happened? Well, what happened was

that [snorts] they start to subcontract

um their labor to other places. Okay.

So, um so now what's going to happen is

you will have the rise of England,

French and the Dutch Republic mainly.

Okay. to to provide

textiles, luxury goods to

um Spain, right? So how this was

accomplished was first industry.

So the Spanish because they were so

wealthy didn't want to work and their

people didn't have to work either. Okay?

So but they wanted to buy clothes, nice

clothes. So what happened was they got

other nations to be the factories

including Britain, the Dutch Republic

and France. Okay, that's the first

thing. Second thing that happened was

trade. Okay, so the Spanish um did

engage in trade, but now that they're so

wealthy, they could just hire the Dutch

to do it. Okay. Now, the Dutch were

responsible for going to the East Indies

and bringing back uh the spices because

it's a very dangerous job, right? You

could you could get sick, you could die

along the way. Um you could also lose a

lot of money. Okay? And the reason why

the Dutch agreed to this is that the

Dutch was basically a colony of the

Spanish. So, the Spanish had an empire

and the Dutch were part of this empire.

So they just made the Dutch gold do it

for them. Okay. But the third thing that

happened

um was piracy.

Okay. So all this silver was being

transported from the new world back to

Spain. And what the uh English [snorts]

realized is hey we engage in piracy and

steal this silver for ourselves.

Okay.

All right. So now the English became

very wealthy because of piracy. Okay.

And the most famous pirate of this time

of course was surf as Drake and he

worked directly under the monarch

Elizabeth the first. Okay. [snorts] So

this was a state sponsored piracy that

made um Britain very wealthy. Okay. So

now you have this divergence where okay

you have the Spanish empire

and because of

their wealth they became u lazy,

insular

and arrogant or the word we use is

hubris.

Okay, [snorts] lazy is you just make

others do it for you. Okay, insular just

means that now, as we discussed last

class, the Spanish aren't concerned

about other nations. They think they're

invincible, so they engage in court

politics. Okay, they're all infighting

for the throne. The last thing is

arrogant, hubris, which basically means

that you believe you are invincible. You

can do whatever you want and therefore

you start all these wars against

everyone everywhere. you overextend

yourself and you don't really understand

your limitations as an empire. So very

quickly, even though Spain becomes very

wealthy very fast, they also go bankrupt

very fast because they're fighting too

many wars, they're spending too much

money that they don't have. Okay? And

they're too corrupt. Okay? Does that

make sense? now and what and because of

this what's happening is that the uh

British uh England

the Dutch

and the French

they are slowly becoming a much more um

energetic

open and cohesive society

cohesion. Okay. [snorts]

And now that you have this

differentiation, what's going to happen

is that the religion is going to change.

Okay? So, um, Spain remains Catholic

and it's going to fight to control the

Vatican. And this, um, okay, so that's

what Spain does. Now Britain and the

Dutch need to differentiate themselves

from Spain and so they become Protestant

or we call Calvinist.

[clears throat]

Okay. So imag so Catholic is really

about obeying authority but the

Protestant the Calvinist religion

insists on hard work on energy on

obtaining wealth. Okay. The problem

though is that

um the Spanish are too powerful and the

French some of them are Calvinist but

most are Catholic. Okay. So what's going

to happen is that the English and the

Dutch are going to decide to join

forces. Okay. So I want to show very

quickly show you the difference between

the Catholic religion and the Protestant

religion. Okay. So these are the Spanish

and as you can see there's a lot of

trade going between the new world and

Spain. Why is this the case? Because

Spain is extracting resources

from the new world primarily silver.

Okay. Um the French are also engaged in

trade as well. So they're what what they

really want is fur from North America.

So fur is a cuz you're a luxury at that

time. But as you can see from this map

the people that are really engaged in

trade enga engaged in piracy in trade in

shipping are the British okay and the

Dutch. And the reason why is that

they're poor. Okay? And so through this

hard work, they become very wealthy very

quickly. In fact, the Dutch in fact

become the wealthiest nation in the

world per capita. You have this

burgeoning of the middle class. And so

what happens now is that the spa the

Spanish and the Dutch come into conflict

because remember the Dutch are a colony

of the Spanish and so the the Spaniards

want the Dutch pay more taxes and the

Dutch want to be more independent. So

this starts a series of wars. Okay, in

fact an entire series of wars starts

throughout Europe called the 30 years

war.

Okay. So, ostensibly it's a it's a

religious conflict between the

Protestants and the Catholics. But there

are lots of underlying re there are

other underlying factors as well. Okay.

Another factor is the Spaniards want to

exert control over the Dutch. Okay. And

so there's lots of different reasons but

but the main thing you need to know is

that millions and millions of people

die. In fact, it is the deadliest war in

Europe right before

up until the World War I. Okay? And so

this creates anxiety in Europe because

if there's all this war and you're

joining all this wealth, how do you keep

this wealth secure, right? You you're a

merchant, you became very wealthy

through trade by going to East Indies

and getting spices and come back to

Europe and selling them. But if the

Spanish or the French are going to send

an army and steal everything,

how do you keep your gold safe? Okay.

So, what's going to happen is this.

What's going to happen is that the

British and the Dutch are going to

decide to get married.

Okay, this is what we call the Glorious

Revolution. [snorts]

1688 Glorious Revolution. So, let's talk

about the Glorious Revolution.

>> [clears throat]

>> In the glorious revolution, what happens

is that the British nobility

invite Will Orange who is um a leader of

the Dutch Republic to come and become

the monarch of Britain. Okay. And so you

you're like, okay, why would they do

that? Why would they um betray their own

king I

install a um for monarch William orange?

Okay. And so the thing you need to

understand is that throughout British

history what makes Britain unique is

that the monarch has always been

conflict with the nobility. Okay. The

king has always been conflict with the

oligarchs

and this is this is a continuous

pattern. So ostensibly the reason is

religious because chi was Catholic and

uh Britain is a protestant country but

the real reason is the nobility want to

exert authority over the country. Okay.

So in this agreement what would happen

is that parliament

becomes the sovereign state. Okay. it

becomes the de facto power in uh England

and the king with orange agrees to be

the puppet or the figurehead but the

real power is in parliament and so this

creates the idea of national sovereignty

[snorts]

okay what people don't appreciate is

that the real reason why they want to do

that is they want to protect capital

okay

capital,

okay, or transnational.

So, the idea is that not only does one

of the orange come over, but most of

Dutch wealth come over because remember

at this time the Dutch have a huge

problem. They're constantly being

invaded by Spain. So, what you do is you

take all the gold in the Dutch Republic

and you transfer over it to England.

Okay. And so in 1694

they creat

the idea is this. The idea is that if

you buy the Bank of England that gold is

yours. Okay?

But the Bank of England will always be

guaranteed by Parliament.

All right. So this is a very important

idea guys. I I need you to understand

this for the rest of the semester. Okay.

So before you're a king and you you need

to go fight a war, you bore money from

bankers and merchants, right? The

problem though is that one you could

lose the war in which case oops. Second

is that um you could die in which case

oops. And the third and the third

problem is that you could just say I'm

king. I'm not going to give you back

your money. Okay. And so these merchants

would have no choice but to try to

create a revolution. Okay. But but as a

merchant, as a capitalist, you don't

want to go through this process. And so

the Bank of England, it's really

important because

now you are lending money not to the

king but to the nation.

Okay. What this means is that the nation

has to pay you back.

So even though the king dies, the people

are liable for the debt. Okay? Does that

make sense?

All right. So now if you're a merchant,

you feel safe. I can now put my money in

the Bank of England. It's my money.

If I lend it to the nation, I'm always

guaranteed that they'll pay me back.

Okay?

And England is safe because unlike the

Dutch Republic, England is an island and

therefore it's protected by the Royal

Navy. It's impossible for the French,

the Hapsburg Empire or the Spanish to

invade England. They they never able to

conquer England and so it makes England

safe. Okay. All right. So now the

question is why would the Dutch why

would they put their money in England?

Because remember at this time they just

screw you over. Okay. So the way the way

around this is you have some old

techniques, you have inner marriage,

right?

And you have religion or we call secret

societies because remember both [snorts]

um

both um the Dutch Republic and England

are Calvinists. Okay. And the major

society that facilitated trade of course

were were the Freemasons.

But during this time these two were

really between aristocrats and the Bank

of England was trying to get as much

money as possible. Right? So what they

started to develop was a uh new concept.

It's not a new concept but they really

systemized it. It's called contract law.

All right. So there's a famous British

philosopher named John Loach

and he said that what is government for?

Government is provides the alienable

right to life, liberty and the pursuit

of property. All right. What that means

is a government ensures you three

rights. We will protect your safety.

We'll make sure you won't die.

Okay. We will make sure you have the

right to do whatever you want, liberty.

And also we will protect your private

property.

Okay. The entire purpose of parliament

and the courts, okay, the judicial

system is to ensure that your private

property is protected no matter where

your private property came from. Okay?

It doesn't matter. They don't care what

the origin of private property is. Okay?

So, like if you're French and you killed

a million people to steal a million

gold, they don't care. It's yours. It's

private.

Okay. If if if it's if it's and they

believe that this private property comes

from God.

All right. This is yours because God

willed it to be yours and we England

must protect it

and they will do so through Parliament

and through the court system.

Okay? Does that make sense? So now

if you're wealthy

in Europe, you're now encouraged to go

invest in England. Okay? And this

creates a concept that today we call

offshore

financial center

or

OFC. Okay? So think of like Dubai or

Hong Kong where they don't care where

the money comes from. Okay, their legal

system, the financial system system will

help protect this money. Okay, also

Switzerland. Okay, so Switzerland is a

classic example. But England create this

and they based their entire nation

around this idea. Okay. Now the first

major test

to the system was Napoleon

because Napoleon was about to conquer

Europe and England couldn't have that

because if um Napoleon conquers Europe

then Napoleon could control all the

wealth of Europe. He could make sure

that no wealth is transferred over to

England. He he basically blockade

England. So what Britain did was they

financed seven wars against Napoleon and

they lost six of these wars and they won

the last war which quit the British

Empire. Okay. So now Britain is a global

financial empire. Okay. So this is a

East India company. Okay. And the East

Indian company uh it's based in Britain

and like the Bank of England is private

and what it does is it primarily engages

in trade it with India as well as the

East Indies. Okay.

Um so what England will do is they will

colonize India and steal all the wealth

of India primarily by de-industrializing

India. So India had textile factories

but England uh through a lot of um um

policies just bankrupt the India textile

industry and transferred over to

England. Okay. So now what's going to

happen is this what's going to happen is

that uh resources from England sorry

resources from India okay agricultural

products resources are going to transfer

over to England. England is is going to

with its factories make goods for India.

So basically the entire deal is

we Britain give you India $10 and India

you give $1,000. Okay. So every so

basically we give you a dollar for the

goods you give us and and then you pay

us $1,000 for the goods we give you.

Okay. So very quickly this backup

England but not only uh sorry this sorry

this back to India. Okay but not only

that but you also have China as well and

the same idea was the opium went into

uh China and then silver and money went

back to England.

Okay.

And then this money was allowed to go

over to the United States. The United

States industrialized very quickly

because of this policy. Now the question

is how was England able to do this? How

is England able to create a system in

which India and China basically

voluntarily gave up its wealth? And the

answer is England simply game that

incentivize the local elites to

cooperate

with

um England. Okay. So this is the way um

this is what happened. So this is a map

of

uh the British Empire. Okay. So let's

look at India and China.

The local elites had to help the British

do this. Okay, the local elites had to

help the British steal. The question

then is why would the local elites do

that? Okay, and the reason why is

remember from last class, the local

local elites are in conflict with each

other anyway. Okay? And what they're

looking for is more power. And so what

England said to local leads is if you

help us, we will help you steal the gold

from this country.

Okay? Do you understand?

Before

if you were an elite and you lost a war

or other people didn't like you, they

could kill you. But now if you help the

British, you can transfer your wealth

and your children abroad.

Okay? Does that make sense?

So now what's going to happen is that

the elite are going to be able to send

their children and their wealth to the

British Empire. Okay.

Okay. And there are certain mechanisms

that allow them to accomplish this. The

first mechanism

is of course um finance.

Okay.

So,

not only are you allowed to transfer

your capital to

uh the United Kingdom and its colonies,

but they will disguise it for you. This

is what we call money laundering. Okay?

Money laundering.

So when you steal from your people, not

only will Britain allow you to do this,

but they will discuss it for you, okay?

Through their offshore financial

centers, including Hong Kong, Singapore,

their lawyers will pretend that this

money came from not from drugs, not from

gambling, not from prostitution, but

from restaurants, from

real estate. Who cares? Okay? But

they'll clean up for you. Okay? We call

this money laundering. And then they

will help you send it overseas where it

becomes legitimate. Okay. So now you

have real estate investments in

Australia or Canada. Okay.

All right. So this is a global money

laundering system that encourages the

local elites to be corrupt. Okay. It

protects them in the corruption and

incentivizes them in the corruption.

Okay? Does it make sense?

>> [snorts]

>> The second thing that allows this to

happen is schooling.

Okay. So what do I mean by that? The

British when they conquered India and um

China what they were trying to do is try

to brainwash indoctrinite. So they set

up these schools right

and when you went to these schools what

what what did you learn? You learn

English. But when you learn English what

do you learn? You learn that British

culture is superior to your local

culture. Right? When you're learning

English, you're learning about

Shakespeare. You're learning about

British philosophy. You're learning

British history. And as a result, you

slowly come to believe that the British

are superior to us. And therefore, I

should try my best to be British.

Okay? And also, what's really important

is that the schooling system allows for

mobility.

Okay. [snorts] So, if you are a really

smart person in China,

well, there's really little mobility for

you in China. But if you go for the

British system, you might win a

scholarship to go study at Oxford or

Cambridge. Okay? You even might become a

world scholar.

So, a world scholar, it's a basically a

secret society. Okay guys, but the idea

is that all over the British Empire, the

very best students will be selected to

go to Oxford where they become best

friends. Okay, and their mission will be

to spread the power of the British

Empire all around the world

and it works really well. Okay, this is

an indoctrination system for local

elites and it it works really well

because remember if you're a really

smart person,

the British offer you more opportunities

for mobility than your own country

because in your own country the system

is very hierarchal. It's static. There's

really no mobility, right? [snorts] But

if you're really smart and you obey the

British and you believe that the British

culture is the very best in the world,

you might become a world scholar and

then you become part of the British

Empire. Okay?

And that's how the British were able to

conquer the world. And the third thing,

of course, is the navy.

Basically, the navy ensured that Britain

was the greatest military power in the

world. If they didn't like you, they

would come and destroy you. Okay? That's

what happened to China during the open

wars. There's nothing that could destroy

the navy. And so these three things okay

finance the bank of England basically

schooling or the idea of soft power

British culture English okay and the

third thing is the navy created really

the world's first great world empire so

as you can see Britain spread all around

the world okay and this and so even

though

the British Empire is no longer around

it's now the American empire higher even

though the opium trade has stopped.

What's important for us to understand is

the game is still being played today.

Okay.

So let let me give you an example of

this. This is a drug trade in the world.

Okay. And as you can see the drug trade,

okay, primary cocaine. We're talking

about cocaine. There are other types of

drugs as well, but let's focus on

cocaine. You can see it's a global

network.

Um

just like a lot of cocaine is produced

in

Colombia and South America

and then it just travels all around the

world. It's a very sophisticated

system of trade. Okay. But what you need

you you need to understand is none of

this would be possible without the

British financial and legal system.

Okay? Because like why are they why are

people taking such a risk and selling

drugs? Because it's so lucrative. It's

so profitable. But you can only have

this market if it's being protected by a

legal and financial system. Okay? People

only participate in this trade. It's

dangerous. But they only participate

participate in this trade if they can be

guaranteed that they can make a lot of

money then and they can use this money

and protect this money. Okay. So what

protects this money of course is the

offshore

financial

centers. Okay. So the green areas in the

world in which you can place your money.

They won't ask where the money came

from. They don't care where the money

came from and they will clean it up for

you. Okay? Money laundering. They will

use their sophisticated legal and

financial systems to clean up your money

and then they will help you invest it

elsewhere. Okay? Does it make sense? So

this is So guess what? Look at this

guys.

Where are the major um global financial

offshore centers? Well, they're in the

Caribbean. Okay? They're in Panama.

They are in uh northern Europe. They are

in the Middle East. They are in

Southeast Asia. Hong Kong, Singapore,

Japan. Guess what guys? This used to be

the former British Empire.

Okay. So the British Empire is still

around today, but they they transform

from one that is overt and that is that

uses military power in order to control

the world to one that is covert, that is

secret, and that uses financial and

legal means in order to control the

world. Okay? And it's still the game

that we play today.

All right? Now [clears throat]

um there's a question that someone asked

me. Okay, it's a very good question. The

question is this. If offshore financial

centers like Hong Kong and Dubai are so

profitable and it's such easy money, why

doesn't everyone do it right and and the

it's it's the it's a it's a good

question, okay? And the logic is very

simple. We know that gambling,

prostitution, human trafficking,

slavery, all profitable. Why does

everyone do it? Because it's immoral.

Okay?

As a society, you need morality in

create energy,

openness, and cohesion,

right? People want to feel as though

they're part of something good that

they're that we're serving for a higher

cause. And if you're all about slavery

or prostitution or gambling or money

laundering, people won't feel good about

themselves. In fact, the souls become

corrupted. Okay, so the classic example

is like Hong Kong, right? Have you guys

been to Hong Kong? One of the wealthiest

cities in the world, right? Lots and

lots of skyscrapers. But guess what? The

people there are disgusting. They're

depraved. They're unethical. They're

disgusting. There's actually no culture

to the place. There's no morality to the

place. It's actually disgusting. Okay? I

don't want to live there.

And if you live there, guess what? Your

soul is going to become corrupted. So

this is almost you would say this is a

demonic system.

This system is not only evil but it

facilitates evil. It is the work of

Satan. Okay. But unfortunately this is a

system that we live in today.

Um, so even though everyone will say

this isn't demonic, it really it's

really underpins the world today because

if you think about it, okay, okay, all

this corrupt money from China,

uh, India,

uh, Malaysia, they go to these places.

But then this money then goes goes

where? It goes over to Australia to

invest in real estate. Okay,

do you guys know what

the biggest industry in Australia is?

It's banking.

Okay, banking. Which means that

Australia also engages in money

laundering, but they clean it up. So

people aren't aware of this. Do you

understand? But same happens in Canada

as well. Canada, United States as well.

So this entire world it's based on

stealing from the third world and

transferring this money to the first

world. That's all it is. Okay? It's that

complicated.

But this has led to a huge problem. The

problem is what we call over

financialization.

But over financialization,

it's a very similar concept where

there's too much money. So people become

corrupt, lazy, arrogant, and insular.

And that's what's happening in Canada,

in United States, in Britain, in

Australia.

Okay? And so really, an empire

must collapse at some point. So the

British, the western world, they are a

victim of their own success. Okay? So

they stole all this money from the rest

of the world. But this money has made

the past made their people lazy,

corrupt, and arrogant. And that's why

we're seeing so much conflict right now

in the western world because this um

um money has created a lot of inequality

in the world in the western world right

where maybe 1% of all the money 9% have

very little to get by on but you also

have a lot of corruption where the

political system no longer serves the

interest of the people. They only serve

the interests of the rich. Okay? And

then you will also have immorality

where nowadays people only concerned

about making money. They don't want to

contribute to the community. Okay. So

yes, we can say that the western world

it's evil because they've stolen all

this money. But really what what's

happened is that they've corrupt

corrupted and destroyed themselves

because this model has been too

successful for them. Okay. And that's

why we're seeing so much chaos in the

world today. So, we are really at a game

reset or a game's end and a new game is

about to emerge because this game right

now is not sustainable. Okay. All right.

Any questions?

Yeah. [clears throat]

So if the success of western world leads

to the corruption and you know the fall

of western world can we generalize that

you know after success people will fall

then what's the meaning of success

okay that's um a great question okay so

if you know that

you become successful you will not be

happy. Why do people um go and succeed?

And okay, this is a really um hard

question to answer. Okay, so let me

explain different layers. Okay, the

first layer is this.

Why

people know that wealth doesn't lead to

happiness, right? What leads to

happiness is family, love, community,

meaning, purpose, generosity. Okay,

that's what leads to happiness. The

happiest people in the world tend to be

religious. They tend to have families

and they tend to be very kindhearted

people.

So why do why do we have rich people?

Because a game is structured

so that everyone is forced to play.

Okay? Meaning that

um we only care about people like Ellen

Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg.

We we worship the rich. Okay. Um, and we

hate the poor. So, if you're homeless,

we think it's because you deserve it.

Because you're lazy, 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 is why do

you have this stupid game? And the

answer, unfortunately, is that what we

figured out is that this game in the

short term, in the short term, not the

long term, okay? We're talking like

decades, not centuries. In the short

term, it's what makes your people the

most energetic, open, cohesive, and the

most likely to win against other nation

states. Okay? Does that make sense? So,

in the long term, you get destroyed.

Your people are destroyed. You're

corrupt. You're corrupted by this game.

But in the short term, it allows you to

defeat other players. Okay? That's how

the British were able to create the

empire because they defeated the French,

they defeat the Germans, they defeat the

Russians. Okay? And that forces the

other players to play this game as well

because in the short term this game

it um this game gives you huge

advantages. Okay. So think of it's a

zero sum game. Think of a Olympic game

where okay, Evan's going and competing

in the 100 meter sprint and we know you

shouldn't do drugs because drugs will

destroy your body, right? And you could

have a heart attack when you're 40. But

they're like, "No, no, no. I really want

to win this game." So they So one guy

uses a drug and he wins. And the other

players know about this and now they're

forced to also use the same tactic.

Okay? Do do you understand? So it's it's

a really unfortunate system in that this

system can only lead to the unhappiness,

corruption,

uh and immorality of people. But

people are too concerned about

short-term rewards. Okay? If you don't

play this game, then you get eliminated.

Okay? what I'll discuss in next class,

okay, is uh the American Empire and how

the American Empire changed this game,

right? So, what the American Empire will

do is it will add US dollars to this

game. And it's important because it

makes the game universal now as well as

easier to play. Okay? And then we'll

look at how the system capitalism

conquered the world. Okay? So, so it's a

great question, but the reality is that

um if you cheat, if you do bad things,

in the short term, you will win out even

though in the long term it will lead to

severe consequences for you and your

people. Okay, does it make sense? Okay.

I mean, and it's also the same thing as

like you [snorts] know rich people,

right? Rich people to get rich, they

will sacrifice their children's

happiness. They will sacrifice their own

happiness.

But but they think that this will lead

to happiness in the future. It won't,

but but they believe it. Okay. So that's

the great tragedy of this game. Does

that make sense?

>> Okay. Good. Any more questions?

Okay. Good. So we'll continue this next

class. Okay.