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...parts of American society, it was a process of hollowing out. It was a process of stagnant wages for thirty years. MAGA has a huge amount to do with this, the hollowing out of industrial base in the Southeast and in in the Midwest. So what are we doi
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...in relative decline. It's abs in an absolute term, it's still rising. But in relative terms, I mean, it's just hard to ignore, like, how many people China has, like, how quickly its economy has grown. You know, the American economy is still very dyna
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...of Americans, their living standard had declined even, you know, basically from the late seventies onward and then even through the nineties, but that was not being fully reflected by these big indicators in the late nineties. You know, you mentioned
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The first, when I look at US foreign policy, it seems pretty clear that The US is essentially retrenching on its own borders. It's taken the lessons from the failed Ukraine war, and it's come to the conclusion, look, we actually can't protect power t
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Now what caused great depression? Well, I would say when thousands of banks went under and there's no FDIC and everyone just got wiped out by that, and it's a systemic risk. So, like, one bank failure leads to the next one. That's so obviously what c
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...It's abs in an absolute term, it's still rising.
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...in the American fabric we need to figure out. I don't exactly know what the solution is, but it's taken me this long and maybe this is what all these young people have been screaming about, and I have ignored, so I apologize for not really understand
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thank you. The point is is what what do you think is going to happen when you take this culture, you put it in a place, and then you announce there's sort of free money floating around and there's not gonna be a lot of checks and balances? Well, then
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the climate, settling the stars, it's really The United States versus the CCP. And bear in mind that we won World War two, not because we had a defense industrial base necessarily, but because we were the industrial powerhouse of the world. And when
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...transform the American economy to basically have knowledge work on the high end, and then financialization, banking and currency and being the safe bond asset on the other hand. And then we basically chose to deindustrialize. Right? And we chose to d
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A lot of Americans, their living standard had declined even, you know, basically from the late seventies onward and then even through the nineties, but that was not being fully reflected by these big indicators in the late nineties. You know, you men
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This phrase of making America great again, I mean, obviously, it's it's not the goal is not to move back to, you know, 1977 when, as you described, that things were pretty crummy. I think it's more 1965 or maybe '55. I mean, the imaginary here is act
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...decline. And, you know, there are many countries, you know, including The US where, you know, the rate of reproduction is, you know, under two. You know, meaning meaning that, you know, many many countries around the world, by the way, including Chin
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is lagging in AI adoption. Number two, and a byproduct of this, is is a collapse of the cheap labor the cheap labor advantage that a lot of developing economies have benefited from for the last fifty years. The third big feature, which really hasn't
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...referred to the decline in public service as a quiet crisis. Mhmm. American elites no longer felt this duty and social pressure to serve their country. And it seems that, you know, over decades, different industries become the most attractive, right,
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Much of it aerospace, probably, you know, in engines, other parts that feel like areas for potential further growth. Agreed. Look. I I go back and forth between, three categories. Two categories, really. Category one is, you know, after having a grea
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...America, and most Americans that I know don't see them because they fly over them.
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