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ology. Did we say this about Japan when I was young? Didn't we say, oh, the Japanese, there's something about their culture. They'll never want to take a chance, so therefore they'll never build any technology because they don't want to. There's something about their culture. Well, Japan is doing okay. Seems like they fixed that. Now we're doing the same thing about China, that there's something…
← Previous segment →es into some corruption black box. So the opportunity for corruption among the Chinese system is that a lot of the money is going to get siphoned off for projects that were not good ideas but somebody had the clout to get it funded from the government.
So China's system is based on who you are, how much corruption you're involved in, and looking good to the Communist Party. Our system is almost entirely, brutally based on performance. And I have to admit if their system did not adjust to this problem, I don't see how they could. I don't see how they could build anything.
And I think there was another reason given which was it was mostly corruption. Here's the part that really raised my red flag. So this is an opinion piece. I won't even tell you who the opinion is from, but it's in the Wall Street Journal. Let's see: Dreams and passions are impractical and expensive and even silly. So he's talking about the typical Chinese culture that dreams and passions are impractical and expensive and even silly and they must be discarded. And he says if China can't cultivate free thinkers, you know, it's always going to be a follower.
Do you think China can't cultivate free thinkers? Or does that just sound super racist to you? Because it sounds super racist to me. Because you know who else can't cultivate free thinkers who make a difference? The United States. Because 98% of us are not contributing anything that our free thought made a difference to. I didn't invent any chips. Did you?
I know I feel like the top one percent of Chinese effective scientists and technical people probably just like everybody else. So I don't know. I'm not buying this whole cultural thing. There's definitely something going on that they're not keeping up, but I think it has more to do with the funding, probably the funding more than anything.
All right, Rachel Maddow, who I watched just for humor purposes, watching her face contort when she's trying to sell you some anti-Trump stuff. Now first of all, watching Rachel Maddow do anti-Trump content feels like 70 years ago. It doesn't feel current anymore, does it? It just feels really kind of old, kind of stale. But she's working. She's really making a big deal about the fact that Trump is now going to be prosecuted for giving money to Stormy Daniels to not talk, but it was campaign financing money.
Now of all the things that Trump is ac
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cused of doing, is this the one that people care the least about? Have you ever met even one person who said, oh, I thought he'd be a good president but once I found out he used campaign money for campaign purposes to make the Stormy Daniels thing go away, I don't know if I could support somebody who used campaign funds to benefit his campaign. I don't. I can't support that. Is there even one pers…
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