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b'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 \\u201cyet to hear a satisfying description of human social life\\u201d

- 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\\u2019s 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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Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.'