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“Month over month, sales rose only in the Northeast, being up by just over two percent, while the South fell just over, it fell just over three and a half percent. The Midwest fell about three percent, and On the west, it fell just over one percent.”

“Again, the West is doing this. It's a new form of colonization. And we will use water from India to cool off data centers, data that they will use in the West.”

“But where do you get the first abolitionist sentiment? In other words, the first principle of slavery is wrong for all time, no matter who you are. You get that in the West. You get that in America and in Britain in the 18th century. You know, from Quakers and…”

“So we lack technology, we lack mass manufacturing capacity, we lack the components, and we lack the rare earth materials. Sort of four layers in which we're behind this challenge.”

“This is a country that has gone from you're really trying to replicate the West to in many ways leapfrogging it.”

“Also, there's insufficient power supply for the demand across the continent, and we're going to see, and we are beginning to see a leapfrogging into a green economy, I think, much faster than we'll see one happen in the West.”

“Even if Like, as a result of listening to this podcast, every single person in the West just, like, immediately started coming out babies. It still wouldn't really For many decades halt this hole we've dug up, dug for ourselves. There's basically no way out of…”

“That was an incredibly dumb decision.”

“My challenge to a lot of folks building in this BtoB SaaS space is try putting that five, 10,000 dollar plan on your website, and you'll be surprised how many people, especially in the West when doing B to B buy are comfortable swiping their credit card for th…”

“If you see it in Dubai for like one to three years, it's probably coming out west and we can get ahead of the trend.”

“Let's just say that the actions of the West are indistinguishable from suicide.”

“The way you commit suicide in the West is you stop believing that your particular culture has something superior in it.”

“I don't actually think migration's working in the West, because people don't want to change.”

“The atom bomb killed religion. Hiroshima killed, killed, killed the West. Because, of course, you're God now. And every, every assumption we've made since August of 1945, 80 years ago, has been based on the core, often unstated belief that we're in full contro…”

“Regulation in the West for sure has been the single biggest reason why homes have become so unaffordable.”

“The fact that so many countries want to join the BRICS means that there is a yearning, a striving for something other than an organization that is dominated by the West.”

“I think we're already on a ride towards consciousness. We're very far away from the West.”

“You can go to the dealership and try, you know, assisted, assisted parking in a way that does not exist anywhere in the West.”

“They're so fricking good. They're so far ahead of anything that the West or even Japan and Korea are making”

“In the East, everyone's on a train, so they're on their phone, so they're scrolling. In the West, everyone's driving, so they're listening, and that's the reason podcasts and audiobooks.”

“When you look at the West and you account for real estate to cost of cups sold, you're able to serve up a lot more cups because the culture is of people buying a coffee and then walking with it. India somehow has out, sidestepped that altogether. Nobody's buyi…”

“So we have to take some agency away from the children and give it to the parents, because if you were in the West, we would give it to the teachers. If you were in China, we'd give it to the state, you know, but in India, we have to give it to the parents.”

“That's why we sort of tick down a half a percentage point a year in, in, in, in happiness in the United States and most of the West.”

“And we're going to see, and we are beginning to see a leapfrogging into a green economy, I think much faster than we'll see one happen in the West.”

“China, hands down. The mindset of the PRC, I think their approach to basic human rights, I think their conducting of an ongoing genocide with their Uyghur population, I think their approach to free speech, to political assembly, to religious freedom, are funda…”

“The US right now does not have the production capacity, nor does the UK, nor does Australia, kind of the West at large, to make enough munitions to fully equip a prolonged nation on nation conflict.”

“Like there's real evil in the world. And I think a lot of people just don't, they can't process that. People today, In the West cannot fathom that there's real evil in the world, and I can tell you very certainly that, like, there is evil.”

“And the definition of equity Or like the widely accepted definition is, is not creating equal opportunities. It's to have equal outcomes. That is insane. Like the idea that, that like, no matter what someone's work ethic is, or no matter like what their talent…”

“I think that over time, like in a war of production, the East will win. I think that China will just wildly outproduce munitions compared to the West.”

“I don't think anyone in the West has done anything like as ambitious as UPI. I think it's like an incredible triumph of public-private collaboration.”

“Because if something like this happens, it could really expand the Ukraine war. The West is going to use this as evidence that Putin wants to invade multiple countries and invade, you know, a bunch of countries in Europe, and this could lead to a major escalat…”

“The salaries are on par, really, you know, like, the top you go, like, in fact, your, you, your saving potential will be much, much higher in India than in the West, because in the West it is kind of saturated.”

“If you have money, India is the best place to live. You get, you know, five mates and driver and everything is taken care of. In the West, you can't do that. You know, like even when you're earning that kind of money, you still need to vacuum your house and, y…”

“The West, I think is especially vulnerable to this, like open societies, I think are extra vulnerable when it comes to infosec stuff, because like we put it all out there. We adopt these systems. We open them up. We let the private sector totally handle them. …”

“The most important thing in my view that can happen for the preservation of the West and its values is for the US military to be by far the best in the world.”

“The future of the West depends on buying things from people that are Sometimes, not always, outside the norm, unlikable to you, are not going to conform to your thing, are not going to do the right dinners.”

“China and Russia realize this. They didn't realize it before. And that is going to change where they invest their money. And we'll give them ability to catch up if we're not on top of this.”

“A deal was available, but the West chose not to take it.”

“It's, I've done both, and it's much easier to launch currencies than to scale factories. And once you have that in mind, it's way easier for China or any other country, frankly, that has natural resources or manufacturing or both to launch a currency than it i…”

“The difference between the West and India is in the West, people are going into a coffee shop to actually drink coffee. The culture of buying a coffee and walking, especially in New York, is such a big thing that the financials work out for them. Here, if you …”

“The West is never going to trust them again. The Germans are never going to buy their oil again.”

“And so my guess is huge amount of money from the West and EU going into Ukraine. Ukraine agrees to let Putin keep some regions, some assets, Putin agrees to remove himself from certain regions and give up certain assets. Sanctions are partially lifted, but the…”

“When you hear stories of, you know, brown girls who are subjected to horrible things, we celebrate them in the West, we put them on covers on the West, but we don't allow them to lead their own organizations. We don't allow them to be entrepreneurs.”

“I think feature facilitating revenue is something that's underrated in the West. Like our sort of business models are kind of either advertisement or subscription, and that's kind of it.”

“I really think that we're in a process of moving to a massive cold war of the West against China and Russia. I think that's terrible for returns and asset prices, and it's really bad, obviously, for Chinese assets.”

“And now I feel like some reversals notwithstanding, the direction line is down and to the right for the West. It's down to the right as a percentage of global GDP, as a percentage of population and military strength, and so on and so forth.”

“The second thing we learned is that the Ukrainians have a much better military than we expect. And I think a lot of that is due to the arms and training that we provided them over the last few years.”

“I think Putin underestimated Zelensky's resolve, Ukrainian resolve, and I'd say the West resolve.”

“I do think the West was unique in its ability to have liberalism, you know, succeed and then kind of spread those values around the world.”

“And then you're going to start talking about embargoes of commodities, both self-imposed by Russia and perhaps imposed by the West. And then you're talking about inflationary impacts of this conflict being something akin to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which is de…”

“So there's some parts of the country I'm thinking about some pockets in the West where actually coal still makes it in the market. It's still competitive. It's still alive.”

“I think the future is a centralized East and decentralized West.”

“To believe that America is a great evil, to believe that the West is not exceptional in its values, even with all of our flaws, is a luxury belief.”

“So there were studies done with pop song lyrics, which show that in general, in the west, pop song lyrics from the 19 eighties to today have become increasingly individualistic with words like we, us, and I are supplanted by words like I, me, and my, and this …”

“Now, actually, if you see broadly Siddharth, the ecosystem in India for venture debt, it's very underpenetrated. If you see in the West, it's a very, very mature market. There's a significant venture debt to venture equity presence. Whereas in India, it's stil…”

“If you look at West it's a, It has, like, 10 to 12% of the market cap to venture debt in terms of funding a lot of companies.”

“Tencent created, I think, some weird admixture of If Netflix was a gaming platform and you were to marry it to a social network, then that's what you have in China. And that may be the future in some significant way in the West.”

“A lot of people in India take time to understand a new model because they're not a lot of new models in India anyways. A lot of large companies have been inspired by the West. A lot of fundraising has happened because of pattern matching, et cetera.”

“I think what the West is known for is cash out experts. So these are people who are primarily responsible for converting these sort of virtual gains into monetary or physical ones.”

“I mean, I would argue that technology and productivity is the only path to having jobs.”