David French

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1,997 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The SkyePod · French Friday: The Solution to Partisan Christianity · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

Because you go to Norway, you go to Sweden, you go to Denmark, you go to all the Scandinavian countries, there's private property, there's public corporations, it's a capitalist economy. voice-verified

By some measure, some of these even Scandinavian countries might be more economically free than the US, but they have a very different voice-verified

overall social compact. voice-verified

They spend a lot less on defense as a percentage of GDP than we do, and in absolute numbers, of course. voice-verified

But that's changing with the Russia-Ukraine invasion. voice-verified

I mean, I think Denmark now outspends us as a percentage of GDP on defense and maybe some of the other Nordic countries. voice-verified

But they have allocated less to sort of building this very formidable military. voice-verified

They've allocated more to a very generous social voice-verified

welfare structure. voice-verified

And they also have a different outlook and attitude towards work and productivity to the point where they're going to culturally value more time off. voice-verified

They culturally value your big, long holidays more. voice-verified

Whereas America is very much a culture of rise and grind. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

And so I think if you don't like rise and grind culture, which has a lot of dark sides to it, I'm not going to stand here and defend, stand to thwart history, defending rise and grind. voice-verified

There's a lot of problems there. voice-verified

So if you don't like rise and grind, you have seen the consequences in our country of very genuine economic inequality. voice-verified

that is less related to billionaires and actually more related to the fact that the top 10% of America spends more than half of all of our consumer dollars. voice-verified

So capitalism in many ways is resulting in our country in a sense where a majority of Americans actually feel like they're on the outside looking in on their own economy. voice-verified

So you've got rise and grind, and then you've got economic inequality, and then you often have an unrealistic view of the benefits of a lot of European social welfare. voice-verified

And so you kind of have an idealized view of it. voice-verified

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