Ian Bremmer
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4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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You see it in terms of the educational system, maternity leave, paternity leave, all of these things.
So let's recognize that the safety net in the United States has a lot more holes, is a lot more frayed, just does not act as effectively as it does in a lot of other countries.
In Canada, for example, in Japan and South Korea, for example, those things are important.
Also, you have a system in the United States where Americans rightly perceive that if you have access to funds and network, your kids are treated completely differently.
They have different opportunities.
The American dream is not for everybody.
no matter how hard you work.
I remember Operation Varsity Blues.
And this was this, I mean, we barely is a blip.
And today's it's like OJ Simpson, like, oh, I remember when you had all of these parents that weren't wealthy enough to get their names on university buildings.
So they couldn't buy their way in officially.
So they had to buy their way in unofficially by like, you know, sort of giving a bunch of money so that the kids could get to be on the lacrosse team to make sure they were in a final place.
But
It's like, of course it works that way.
And we see that in terms of absolute inequality numbers in the economy.
We see it in terms of the ability of class mobility, which, I mean, Americans are far less class mobile today than the Europeans are.
than the Canadians are.
That's shocking.
I mean, like back in the 70s and 80s, the United States had some of the greatest class mobility in the OECD.
And in just 40 years, that turned completely on its head.
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