(Because of the growing infrastructure of business regulation, a social safety net, health/safety standards)
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I'm pretty sure bringing us back to that 1920s "Everyone trying to sell you a bridge" life is what Trump means by Make America Great Again
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I still remember my dad showing me around his workplace and me noting that he wasn't wearing safety goggles
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"Chinese people don't wear safety goggles," he said. "That's an American thing, Americans always afraid to take risks"
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But, I asked, what is the point of not wearing safety goggles if you have them, what is the benefit of that risk
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That's the problem with this country, he said, if you grew up overseas you'd know the key to getting rich is loving risk for its own sake
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Not wearing goggles means you have to stay on your toes all the time, he said, and it's ppl always on their toes who get ahead
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I am a decadent First World liberal. I want a world where being on one's toes is discouraged unless one is on one's toes recreationally
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He also used to drive without a seatbelt bc doing so makes you a better driver bc you're really thinking abt not getting into an accident
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Until he got ticketed for it, which sent him into a prolonged rant against the interfering nanny state
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I'm the guy who wants to defer all responsibility for not getting into a car accident onto the computer driving the car
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I love my dad but he's such a clear-cut example of coming up through a brutal system and then internalizing that system's values
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They say Calvin Coolidge for instance was viciously, implacably pro-austerity bc he himself was a self-made man who believed in self-making
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