He’s not American, so he might’ve had a different view on things. The view of many pro business not-quite-Americans is of this place as a land of promise and opportunity. It’s why so many immigrate in hoping them or their children can make a good life, when they’re really just convenient labor for the ruling class. Still a stale af take though.
If he was from anywhere other than Canada, sure. But as a Canadian? America is paper thin but extremely loud. Being next door and seeing Americans come up here for medication costs and America using us for their entertainment? We Canadians get all of Americas media but without the propaganda from the top of our government down forcing American supremacy. For Canadians it is easy as hell to see through the American dream nonsense. ESPECIALLY when you consider the running joke in Canada for decades is that our favorite national pass time is saying how were not the Americans. Not like we ever really liked the US up here.
Note I said “pro business,” which probably checks out for someone who’s formed connections with multiple tech businesses over the years. When you’re around people who believe something like that, it often seeps into your way of understanding the world. Now that the neoliberal house of cards is collapsing, Linus is realizing that the tech business community themselves were the biggest believers in the lie.
And like I said, he’s Canadian. There is no way that he couldn’t have seen through that unless he was flagrant about his sheer stupidity. You can’t live next door to that shithole and see what they do, have our news cover it for years and be part of this country while honestly thinking that America is good for business. Not if you have been paying a fraction of attention to the world around you. The only way he believes that about America is stupidity or surrounding himself with people who blow smoke up his ass.
This shit is why I’ve never trusted Linus. Just because he’s smart in one area doesn’t mean he’s smart across the board. Moments like this prove it.
Yea idk listening to the clip it’s probably not a new idea of his, just thought the cover was kinda funny
Anyways, he literally says in the clip that the American dream (of at least middle class prosperity) was mostly real for the baby boomer generation so I don’t really know why they titled it that
He’s not American, so he might’ve had a different view on things. The view of many pro business not-quite-Americans is of this place as a land of promise and opportunity. It’s why so many immigrate in hoping them or their children can make a good life, when they’re really just convenient labor for the ruling class. Still a stale af take though.
If he was from anywhere other than Canada, sure. But as a Canadian? America is paper thin but extremely loud. Being next door and seeing Americans come up here for medication costs and America using us for their entertainment? We Canadians get all of Americas media but without the propaganda from the top of our government down forcing American supremacy. For Canadians it is easy as hell to see through the American dream nonsense. ESPECIALLY when you consider the running joke in Canada for decades is that our favorite national pass time is saying how were not the Americans. Not like we ever really liked the US up here.
Note I said “pro business,” which probably checks out for someone who’s formed connections with multiple tech businesses over the years. When you’re around people who believe something like that, it often seeps into your way of understanding the world. Now that the neoliberal house of cards is collapsing, Linus is realizing that the tech business community themselves were the biggest believers in the lie.
In all fairness, he kind of lived his own version: started a company on his own, became successful, got pretty rich.
And like I said, he’s Canadian. There is no way that he couldn’t have seen through that unless he was flagrant about his sheer stupidity. You can’t live next door to that shithole and see what they do, have our news cover it for years and be part of this country while honestly thinking that America is good for business. Not if you have been paying a fraction of attention to the world around you. The only way he believes that about America is stupidity or surrounding himself with people who blow smoke up his ass.
This shit is why I’ve never trusted Linus. Just because he’s smart in one area doesn’t mean he’s smart across the board. Moments like this prove it.
Yea idk listening to the clip it’s probably not a new idea of his, just thought the cover was kinda funny
Anyways, he literally says in the clip that the American dream (of at least middle class prosperity) was mostly real for the baby boomer generation so I don’t really know why they titled it that