The Gods Must Be Crazy Podcast: A Satirical-Scholarly Autopsy of American Capitalism's Death Sprint-Dispatches from the Chinese AI Century's Frontline

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Wall Street's priests told us offshoring was "win-win." Now McKinsey is laying off 10% of its workforce and China controls 90% of our rare earths, 80% of our solar panels, and the magnets in our F-35 fighter jets.

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In this conversation with SBA lending expert Ray Drew, author Saji Madapat (The Gods Must Be Crazy II: A Rooseveltian Renaissance for Trump 2.0) unpacks the civilizational comedy of errors that turned American capitalism into a quarterly strip-mining operation—while China farmed for 2049.

We discuss:

00:00 Introduction: The $63 Trillion Heist

01:08 From "Cyber Coolie" to Boardroom Strategist

02:49 The "Hunter" Mindset: Why CEOs Strip-Mine Companies

06:24 The Quarterly Trap: Why Going Public Hollows Out Innovation

07:50 90 Days vs. 90 Years: China's "Farmer" Strategy

10:01 Root Causes: Milton Friedman, Ivy League Schools, and Short-Termism

12:39 Competing Against the State: The $63 Trillion Disadvantage

15:36 The Roosevelt Solution: A New Square Deal for SMEs

18:14 Lawyers vs. Engineers: Why Washington Misses the Point

21:14 The Fall of GE: Swimming Naked When the Tide Goes Out

23:20 Outsourcing National Strategy to TikTok Algorithms

25:05 America's Halftime: How We Engineer a Comeback

This isn't left or right. It's just forward.

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