What Samo Burja Thinks About Basically Everything

Samo Burja (@SamoBurja), founder of Bismarck Analysis, joins Erik for this episode. You can find him on Medium at medium.com/@samo.burja.
In this episode they discuss:
Why certain societies flourish while others decay
Where Samo stands on the nature versus nurture debate
Why he has “yet to hear a satisfying description of human social life”
The lessons we can learn from places like Singapore
The difference between the view of government as resource for the people versus the view of people as resources for the government
Why he’s skeptical of happiness research as it relates to countries
Why neither Obama nor Trump were inevitable
The future of China, the US, and globalization
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[@ОлекС-у1т]

currently, don't know how to combine, rural religious is the only the well tested origin of trust, respect and self-reliability for statistically sizable amount of society.

[@jasonthomasmt]

Happy to be the first commenter!

[@ОлекС-у1т]

time for gathering, growing up in a small community all the childhood, spending all the tiime together with all the neighbors. Kinda bonobo utopia. Return humans life back to the owner and it's community. That is why rural religious looks promising.

[@ОлекС-у1т]

too optimistic imo.
if people life matters, then you should see working week shortens, waste management starts immediately, privacy violation stops, data brokers dissapears, android rebuilds), debt as market instrument dissapears, casino dissapears, war stops. Kinda progress, human-centric, trust and respect among us. But...Still no bus. F...