All right, I guess like, so like based on your previous comments, like what we're talking about

if you think about America finally facing a serious economic competitor or like the in China and

the overall the BRICS nations as they're referred to. But like I mean, it's clear from your comments

that like the era of the unipolar world is over like the era like that that's coming to that's

very the writing is on the wall in terms of America as the manager of a global economic system.

But then we get like I want to ask like you know, back to a theme in this conversation. What would

a rational, I rationally run country like how would it respond to the like economic competition

from a nation like China and then like in order to rationally address these concerns of anything

that we're talking about here and the example of France that we just talked about is front in my

mind is labor struggle like the only grounds on which the economic rule of the upper classes can

be fought and like is it isn't all of this necessary to have the kind of society that could rationally

deal with what a major economic competitor from well economic competition from China will look like

in the coming century or so. Well, while I am very happy that you bring up the whole labor

capital struggle because that's another absent item on the discourse of this country that shouldn't

be absent because it's going to play a major role it already is. I would not want to say that's

the only or the most important I wouldn't say that. There's too many levels here that have to be

dealt with. So let me offer a different way to think about how rational an alternative we could

construct. I'm going to use American history. The war of the war of independence 1776 and all of that

was a war in which the colonial power Britain, Georgia III king, is telling Americans what to do

organizing and manipulating the economy using taxes and so forth to advantage the British empire

which is at that point at its height or nearly so. And the American colonists mostly British

or British by origin fight back. And to the surprise of everybody David beats Goliath. It happens

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