The Precariat Trap: Why America Can’t Rise Up – BS Filter #147

So in your email that you sent me, you were drawing some parallels for where the United States is or may currently be at.

It's open to opinion and discussion.

Yeah.

To some other countries like Burma and Turkey, countries that seemed to be progressing towards democracy and then took a sharp right turn at some point.

Where do you see the parallels with the United States today?

Yeah.

So, I mean, there's a few different things.

They may be small parallels, but I think the...

The thing that's the most important when it comes to kind of the state of where Myanmar is now and as we knew it historically, Burma.

But, you know, both the United States and Burma were British colonies, of course.

And, you know, we both inherited some like legal, administrative, economic systems that were shaped by the British rule.

um and that had long lasting impacts on the governance of both countries you know while we We in America and you know, Ray could attest to this, but our history books will refer to our war for independence as the revolutionary war.

But I struggled to say there was anything truly revolutionary about the outcome.

Um, as far as I'm concerned, we, we were like tax dodging as you, you have said so many times before.

And then what are, what is the first thing we do? Oh, by the way, here's your taxes in this new country.

So I don't think it was exactly revolutionary necessarily, but I think it was a war for independence to say, hey, we want to we want to govern ourselves.

We don't want to be paying any taxes to another country, but we're happy to pay taxes to ourselves.

Both Burma and the United States arguably started kind of.

veering towards, I guess, federalism.

Uh, and I hope I don't need to explain what that is.

You guys understand federalism.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sorry.

Sorry.