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Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Lean Production in the US

There's a line from how Asia works where they're talking about the reparations that korea got after world war two from japan and how they're using that to build up their industrial capacity. There's like a line from one of the line managers or in the factory it goes listen you guys had a work like 14 hours a day seven days a week but if you can't use that money to rebuild our country then what good are you? You might as well just kill yourself. That is a level of um material austerity that is inconceivable to me  and yeah i don't know anyone who grew up in such four circumstances i can't imagine it.

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