Tyler Cowen
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They're cultured.
They have wonderful taste.
They understand all these different countries.
They know something about Chinese porcelain.
And if like you lived in a world ruled by them, the growth rate would be negative 1%.
So there's some way in which all these things have to balance.
I think US has done a marvelous job at that and we need to preserve that.
What I see happening, UK used to do a great job at it.
UK somehow the balance is out of whack and you have too many non-growth oriented people in the cultural mix.
Which I felt, this is real dinners, yeah.
And the food is good too.
I don't think I'm well-cultured would be one difference.
There are many differences.
First, I'm an American.
I'm a regional thinker.
I'm from New Jersey.
So I'm essentially a barbarian, not a cultured person.
I have a veneer of culture that comes from having collected a lot of information.
So I'll know more about
culture than a lot of people.