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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 Progressive Redistributionist Language in Asia and Africa

By 2030 something, it's quite possible that China's the number one economy, India's number three, right? The US is number two, but clearly declining and white privilege doesn't feel so privileged anymore. You're already seeing a resentment of like foreigners and whatnot. And as that grows and lots of folks are no longer picking the US as a place to invest in or even leaving the US and going abroad, you'll see a resentment and anger. That combined with kind of relative economic decline will lead to rising nationalism and socialism.

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