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Full Video: The American Dream is India's Nightmare: GDP is Gross! || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Lucknow (2025)
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00:00U.S. went past its Earth Ourshoot Day in March itself.
00:07The total material consumption, including metals, biomass, all kinds of goods,
00:13is not more than 8 or 10 tons per person per year.
00:20And the average U.S. citizen consumes 3 to 4 times of that.
00:23Per person, carbon emission, if we are to remain even within 1.5 degrees of the normal,
00:34should not exceed 2.1 tons annually.
00:38The U.S. emits 14 tons annually.
00:41So the U.S. cannot be the destination if you want to become a developed nation.
00:48This is foolish.
00:49But that's the image that comes to us.
00:52What's a good life?
00:53The American life.
00:55That's the entire purpose of human life.
00:57To consume as the Americans do.
00:59And that brings us to the pivotal point.
01:04Education. Education of the self.
01:07But if your education does not include education of who you are
01:13and what you are to do with all your knowledge of finance and strategy and marketing,
01:19then the only thing left open to you by default is consumption.
01:26So the medical system means the technology and financial system.
01:27Maybe women may think you'll need your making decisions so our preference.
01:29So the plan is to work right now,
01:30and that's how we will take your data to earn the grosks where you're going to want to understand.
01:32It's a very attractive way to bear on you because it's to not be fabric or Què-boh.
01:33The time is a nightmare to sit down.
01:35If things are the same ol' refrigerant,
01:36what you need to do about being a實,
01:37Сейчас you said you've found it in your home,
01:38because B 2001.
01:39And then you just asked me to try it.
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