E2: Balaji Srinivasan on His Past and Future predictions, the Future of the Left and Right, and Why Tech Can’t Escape Politics
"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg
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The Recession of the Establishment
In China, when Deng Xiaoping turned the country to capitalism, it's not like he gave back the country to a bunch of different warlords or something like that. The lies that they used to gain power did not result in like that territory being taken away. They just pivoted the territory to something else. And so in the pivot from wokeism to statism, the establishment is actually coming back about 30 points to the right.
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