Anand Giridharadas

By the way, many of these countries are actually less rich than us.

Most Western European countries, on a per person basis, are actually significantly

poorer than us, like sometimes 30, 40% poorer, the average GDP per person, right?

France is not a little poorer than America.

It's actually like quite a bit poorer than America.

Germany's like, but you go to those places and there's just things people take for granted, right?

From the cradle to the grave, you're born and there's levels of

maternity leave.

There's a box that might arrive in the mail in some places full of the things for free from the government that you need to take care of a baby.

There's child care when you're ready for it.

That baby's ready for it.

That's free.

Your kids start going to school.

The schools are good and free.

College, free or close to it.

Health care, free.

Retirement, you get, you know, we have Social Security, but you get retirement benefits.

You start to think

These places are poorer than us on a per-person basis.

But they've managed to take a lot of the misery and chance out of life.