Ron Simmons
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Podcast Appearances
In Sweden, it's $45,000 a year because the government still takes most of it.
Also, the average cost of a home in Sweden is $360,000 a year, all right?
In the U.S., it's a little higher, $380,000 a year.
But you make almost double the money in the U.S.
That's the difference between capitalism and socialism, all right?
Is that you're going to be much better off
financially because you're going to be able to achieve as much as you can achieve as opposed to kind of, okay, I'm going to lower my achievement level down to the median and we're all going to kind of achieve the same.
It doesn't work like that.
You know, we're a sports culture.
A lot of wives, we're a sports culture and we don't really like ties, right?
We like winning or losing.
We like the winner.
Sometimes we are the underdog.
We want to build up the person that doesn't have a chance and maybe they'll overcome it sometimes.
In socialist countries, it's not like that.
You have to give up your excellence in order to help to move yourself down to the average.
And that's not something that you're going to want to do.
All right.
Last one I'm going to read is for a young man who wants to be a great dad but has no father figure.
Where do I start?