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that I don't have any concerns about my social status and who I play with, who I've been with, who I hang with.
As often repeated, one of my friends says to me, oh, you dress so poorly, you're like one of my best friends, you don't care how you look.
Well, that's not exactly true.
But similarly, and we say this often,
I spent so much time golfing with one of my buddies that by no means would ever win an award for a social status golfer.
But again, I'm not an American hero for doing so, but Michael Lieber takes the cake as the American hero.
That's all we have today on the Becker Business Podcast, the Becker Private Equity Podcast.
Thank you for listening to the podcast.
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and the Becker Business Podcast.
Today's discussion is capitalism, two quick points.
So here's the point, and this comes out of โ the first point is this, and it comes out of a Twitter post, a quote that I had shared on Twitter.
So, for example, you see people leave in Cuba, Venezuela, other places by rafts, doing anything they can to get to this country that is, in the big scheme of things, a very vibrant economy, even if we're over-inflating it with too much deficit spending.
But you do see people going with rafts from those socialist countries to try and get here
You don't see anybody trying to leave here in a raft, risking death to get to socialist countries.
I think that's a great defense of capitalism.
The second thing I'll say about capitalism, and not everybody's going to love this, but it is clearly an imperfect system.
Not even a question.
It's like many have said.
It's like democracy.
It's the best of many, many other bad systems, but the best of the systems that are out there.