Joe Wiesenthal

you know, to discuss the economic or why basically countries like the UK and the US decided to stop attempting to build great things and the connection between the era of building great things and consumer rationing.

And of course, you know, China building a lot of great things, also famous for financial repression of various sorts.

So I was not expecting to hear like that crisp economic idea that we talk about a lot articulated in this particular conversation.

Yeah.

You're not expecting to read the Dan Lang book.

Everybody wants those glistening Shenzhen skylands, but nobody wants to allocate the societal resources to be part of the construction crew that does that.

That seems like one of the big challenges of our time.

Let's leave it there.

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