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  1. “Yes because at that point I've heard this you know I heard people say yeah your IQ is no good you don't have enough degrees or you're not educated some people would even say it's because you guys are malnourished you're malnourished you need to be fed others oh well maybe I give you some shoes and maybe something is gonna change whatever and then so I heard all of this nonsense Lex but guess what but guess what none of it made sense you know why it didn't make sense because if any of that crap was true Why or why is it that? Parents or any other people from these places and oh and by the way some people call at those places God forsaken land. That's also the type of criteria always have to hear when it's not just flat out SHIT whole countries from you know one person a few years ago president of his country”

    2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Trying to sell you anything that you think you might be able to use. Whether we're talking about an ironing board to an umbrella to QTIPs toothpicks selling you whatever you need from your car. These are street sellers. And you ask them, dear. Do you have any degree? Yeah I have his credit degree in math or in literature or whatever. Some very, very educated people. Yet they're right there. This is what they're doing.”

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  3. “And I've heard all types of reasons as to supposedly why that might be the case. Some people with a very straight face are still pedaling the IQ fury, according to which come on, darling, it's not your fault. And it's not your fault, but just accept it. That stuff is still out there. It's very real. And I have to hear it. And others would say to me, it's just because, you know, you guys don't have adequate level of education. And I say, you know, maybe you got to go say that. To most of the street sellers, you go see in Senegal. You go up to many of these street sellers in Senegal. They are wading through cars, in moving cars under the hot sun. Fumes thrown at their face”

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  4. “And that's a key word amazing because that's what I realized later because it was not always like that for me, amazing and amazing, right? I knew instinctively that, of course, we are amazing too. So eventually the question became, So I went from how can behavior we don't to the country as I'm growing up and researching because it stayed with me. When I tell you I'm obsessed, I'm haunted. I am haunted. So you can laugh all you want, but it's So, the question became how come some countries like the United States, Singapore are rich, and some others like mine and many others in Africa are poor? That became the question. And along the line, along the road, I continued on living my life wondering about this question.”

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  5. “Yes, we do, but definitely more today than in my time growing up. Do we have a country like Nigeria that just birthed six unicorns last year alone? Yes. Do we have the African youth out there being so amazing and living their lives? Yes, we have all of that, but it is still unfortunately just like we're scratching the surface. Those people still are getting all of that accomplished, literally swimming through molasses. This is some of the most Most Immoral unfair waste of human capital.”

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  6. “It is. It is. And don't take me wrong, Lex. Do we have some great roads now in many parts of Africa? Yes. Main arteries, great roads are like, whoa, this is moving.”

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  7. “I'd been cheated out of life my whole life. So that's what happened. And then I'm like, oh, and all of these roads were paved roads and like back home, everything is sandy. And, you know, my feet are always ashamed. I always have to wash off when I go back home and your shoes get ruined most of the time. He started, and I had this question, and it was just like wow, how come they have this? And we don't. So I was not being like, oh, you know, how come they have all of this money? Oh, I was not that. It was just like, how come? And I think what I was alluding to was, how come life is so easy here? And back home, it's not.”

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  8. “Bucket of hot water. She's like, Oh, you silly, come on, just jump in. And I jump in the shower, turn the buttons of water is coming down temperature while I'm playing. I was like, are you kidding me?”

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  9. “Right, I still be different. I'm walking in here. Back home, and I tell people this story because to me, it's a defining story. Back home, to take a shower, it takes time. Grandma has to make the shower cold catch on a little stove like you use at, you know, when you go camping. And then she puts a pot of water on it. It boils. She takes it, puts it in a bigger bucket, mixes it with some colder water. Then we put a little pot in it and a stronger member of the family has to drag it to the shower. And then there, finally, I can proceed to take my shower. Here I'm in Germany in the middle of the winter, and my mom's like, My God, time for your shower. I'm like, I'm not getting naked where is a bottom. Whoever points the boys.”

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  10. “How else would you call it? Here you are in Senegal, minding your own business, causing tons of trouble everywhere, you know, just being a happy free wrench kid that I was.”

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  11. “Who are you? It's just because he started with Nikami here. You shouldn't be a robot or anything, and now it looks like I'm known. We know you sorry for 12. And then you're like, tell people. No, no, no, but so this is where this question, even when you ask me how are some countries become prosperous? Question Lex, I had it when I was seven or so. That's when my family. Moved me to from Senegal for the first time of my life. I left my country, I left my continent, and I was headed to Europe to go join my people, my family, my parents who were there as economic migrants. My parents had migrated for a better life. As so many people have to. So many people have to coming from poorer places, coming from low income countries.”

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  12. “Dubai compared to Singapore or to England, very different yet, the same outcome. So it seems to me like whenever we're looking at prosperity, if a nation is prosperous, regardless of whatever other shenanigan they might be running, whatever other operating software they might be running for anything that's not related to business, if on the business side They are proponents of a free market or at least a base level of free markets. We know that such countries will create prosperity.”

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  13. “Create value. Yes. So when it comes to that, we have found that Whether you're looking at two countries that start at the same, we're talking the same people, each Germany, West Germany, South Korea, North Korea. Very similar people to start with, right? But yet, radical outcomes. I know that today Germany is united, but we're talking about back in the days when you had East and West in bloc. Same people, very different outcomes. Like I said, South Korea, North Korea, and so on and so forth. And at the same time, very different nations.”

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  14. “Create value and create value entrepreneurially. We're not talking about rent seeking or anything like that. It's like you found a pie to be this big and you make it this big. So that's what we're talking about.”

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  15. “I think it's that distinction very important because over the years I've seen people push back on all types of things and it occurred to me that that's what the misunderstanding was there. So if we're going to talk about prosperity, making sure that the country can make money so that it can take care of its needs and the needs of its citizens, then what I have come to find is that at the root of that is going to be what we call economic freedom and what I call the toolkit of the entrepreneur in that you can put the rule of law, you can put the concept of clear and transferable property rights. Economic freedom is at all the levels that which will allow entrepreneurs and business people”

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  16. “Or during a very liberal society. So for me, when we talk about prosperity, I just want to make sure that we're clear on that because some people might say that it might be somewhere and be like, well, because I know what I'm going to talk to you about next. And some people are going to sit there and be like, well, China is not like that. You know, even Dubai is not like that. No, so what I'm talking about is just seeing, and that's what I love about this, if we just stick to the word prosperity. To me, I see prosperity as this. It's like, economically speaking, what are we going to be to be a prosperous nation? Meaning we are a middle to high income nation. I'm not talking about what are the rights of your women to vote or can people live like this? I'm not talking about any of that.”

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  17. “Today, I can confidently say yes. Despite all the differences that you talked about, and I think then this is where it becomes very important that we are very clear about the question you ask me. You said, what does it take to make a country prosperous? So I'm just going to stick to prosperity because prosperity doesn't necessarily mean sometimes has nothing to do with maybe how you conduct yourself otherwise socially speaking, right? So you can be prosperous and still when it comes to your family laws, all the way you approach the other aspects of your life, maybe you're running a very communist lifestyle.”

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  18. “Of some that preceded them have proceeded to actually decide what even our new frontiers would be See, when you go to a place like Senegal, Mali, all of that, different countries, but we were one people. One group, one kingdom, and then at some point they decided just when you look at Africa, have you looked at how straight some of these borders are? You're like, did a robot just draw these? Really? Fun to robot, especially this one. But you know what I mean? So they have continued deciding what it would be to be us to live on our land and how do we even progress. And it just keeps on going. They get to decide. How are we gonna which type of even economic development path are we gonna choose or not? So it's very, so from that standpoint, yes, there's a lot of resentment, including even from people like me.”

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  19. “For many different reasons, there is definitely what we call a Pan African movement. And I very much myself consider myself one of them. I don't agree all the time with where we want to go and how we want to go there. But not where we want to go. Where we want to go is we would love to see a United Africa for sure. But how to get that accomplished? That's where oftentimes we have issues. On something like that, So this Pan-African, especially the Pan-African youth, but it's beyond the Pan-African youth, it's the youth in general in Africa, World Bank, UN, all of these organizations that they tend to qualify as imperialist organizations. And it's not always the correct way to describe them, but I'm sure you get the sentiment. And from that place, there is tons of resentment. Because for the longest time, these groups, organizations.”

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  20. “Goes way back when we're talking about way back when started in the 30s going on all the way from there. So what you have there is people who have started coming together and dreaming up and emancipated Africa away from the colonies because at that point there were still colonies and dreaming up all of that. So we're talking about people like Kwame Kumah, Afghana. We're talking about Julius Neri of Tanzania, talking about Bless Yang of Senegal and other people like that, Bundi of Malawi. So anyway, and the African youth of today were still hanging on onto those ideas and on some of these dreams of a reunited Africa. So when you were talking about what seems to unite you, there is that, you know, also, meaning like we all feel like we're part of the same family. Is it only in our heads, is it in reality?”

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  21. “Exactly. But where things come up is, especially nowadays with the African youth, when we have to be reminded of the World Bank, when we have to be reminded of even the world, places like the World Economic Forum. You know, like all of these places that seem to constitute The way they describe them, then I say they, it's primarily my Pan-African friends. So here are maybe terms are worth describing. So the Pan-African movement”

    2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “Resentment. So when you come in, you're you, you live your life, you're just a normal human being, and you treat me decently like you would treat a friend, normal people, I have no problem with you. I'm not going to come back and be like, well, you and your ancestors have enslaved me. You're not going to see that stuff. Sometimes I'm in this country war, I feel like I got a lot of... We in Africa don't do that. Now, if you come, you have this nasty attitude, you think you're still suing servants around, well, you can have a problem with someone like me. I might even grab you by the back of your neck and, you know, take you back to the airport. That's when you're lucky.”

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  23. “Don't even get me going on that. I was trying to be polite today, so just don't legs do not. You know, sometimes I tell myself, my God, today you're going to be all composed. You know, Lex is all composed. So don't go over there and make a fool of yourself. Just behave. Hold it together. If you get me on some grounds, that's when it's all going to...”

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  24. “Yeah. This is okay. So where it plays very differently is so if you came to Senegal today, there is not really a problem at that level where people's resentment start to come from is, of course, when bad behavior shows up, meaning like you have so many white people who can show up. And just in the attitude, they have an entitlement attitude, right? And they think that in a way we're all still servants. Some people in your face, some people more, but that can cause some little resentment. But where really the resentment is.”

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  25. “In a way, yes, especially the fact that in many different places, whether it's Ghana or my country or Benin, where you have these places that we call the Dwarf No Return or the places of no return, which this was the last place where the slaves were standing or this is in Senegal, we call it the door of no return. There is this one door in the slave house. And once they go, they go. That's it. It's going to be the last time they see back home. So, you know, Those? Of course, of course it creates for a greater. Lived experience, which becomes a common lived history. And of course it's going to tie us up.”

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  26. “And then I would say that the continent, especially here I will group it into Black Africa. Unfortunately, our common stories, you know, of having gone through these terrible, horrible period of around the same time, the whole continent being enslaved and colonized. So that, in a way, forms, not that we were ever the first people or only people ever enslaved in this world. As a matter of fact, I mean, the world slaves comes from S-Clav slave slavs, Lislav, right? From the Eastern Bloc. So the first slaves were actually people looking more like you than looking like me, right? But we don't necessarily remember all of that because in our human psyche, the closest to us in history of a big mass of people being enslaved. Is African people? We were the last group like that.”

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  27. “Exactly. Exactly. Where this whole thing started and how at some point humanity was hanging by its fingernails. Only 2,000 of us were left on this earth. And eventually we started, you know, we went for survival. And that's how we started to spread around and some going up north, some going this way, that way. And as you're traveling to different places, then features start to change to adapt to where you are, right? So hair gets lighter for some people, eyes get different shape for others to adjust to our new natural habitat. You know, the genomics program, I think at the National Geographic did that so well for people who are interested in going back to that work with Spencer Wells and such. But yeah, so at the very basic, most basic level, that's what unites us all, first of all.”

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  28. “So at the most basic of what makes us one goes back to even what makes you African, you are African. I'm African. We're one big family. Africa is very much at the end of the day, the foundation and the birth of the human race. So from that standpoint, at the most basic level, we're all Africans.”

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  29. “One more story to their home, which means maybe one more unit that could be rented out to someone. And if many more people do that, then you have a much bigger supply, which means the prices will go down, which means more people have access. And among them, especially the lesser fortune among us, then we're starting to see a winning proposal, aren't we? But instead, if you go the other way around, then all of a sudden you're pricing them out of the market. Same thing was done with us. So oftentimes when I see problems of this nature, you can bet your regulations and census laws are the heart of it. And that's what they're tackling. It's not popular. It's not fun. And people tend to not even understand where you're coming from. But this is a problem we have with people not understanding economic econ 101.”

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  30. “To have a real impact on making sure that people get a chance at, you know, going up, then that's where everything starts falling apart. And then you have people who, you know, then they start pushing for policies, housing policies, making it super hard for you to even renovate or add one more story to your home or anything like that by doing that, you're messing up with the supply, with a supply of housing, and therefore the people who can't afford people get priced out of a market. And so what people like Nicole are doing are going back to where all of this is taking place and they're going back to the regulation side. And just like, you know, I'm sure we'll talk about it here, but people wonder today, why is Africa the poorest region in the world? We go back to the same culprit. Bad laws and tons of senseless regulations. If you make it so hard that in Berkeley, for someone to build”

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  31. “That oftentimes Vicosta, at the end of the day, it's the good old supply and demand equation. If you are going to make it so hard that the supply level of housing remains below a certain threshold, remains lower than the demand of people who need especially affordable housing altogether, what's going to happen is scarcity, prices go up, and who gets kicked out first, but less are fortunate among us. And so, but I find that oftentimes people in the name of we care don't engage their mind. And a friend of mine said this, and he said so well, he said, having a heart for the poor, that's easy, having a mind for the poor, that's the challenge. And oftentimes we all have a heart for the poor. But when it comes then to what do we do?”

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  32. “A lot of it has to do with regulations. And this is where her and I also very much see eye to eye in terms of the free markets and also prosperity building because it's always the same problems most of the time most places. Here what you have is some people in the name of we got to stand for, and I don't like to use this word, but maybe you help me find a better one. But at least that's a word that people can understand. We got to stand for the lesser fortunate among us. Some people would like to call them maybe oftentimes use the word maybe the underdogs. Whatever it is, I will just say maybe the lesser fortunate among us, right? In the name of standing up for them, you're promoting policies that are actually going to backfire and where they end up being the first ones to suffer from it. So let's take this whole housing issue that Nicole and her team are working on.”

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  33. “And I know some folks who are scared of saying much around people. That's also another thing. So not only they're sizing you up, but everybody's also, there is this invisible, this invisible, how should I say this, there is this invisible agreement that they all seem to have to stay on script”

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  34. “To again work on keeping affordability down for most people. I think it's important to, because it seems like it matters to you, I know that it matters to me. I absolutely would not want to see Austin go away, F ⁇ t ⁇ San Francisco did. And I think the key to that is making sure that true diversity, not like the fluff, fluff crap diversity we're hearing over there. And that's another thing, by the way. Because San Francisco likes to pride itself in, oh, you know, we are so into diversity, but I'm like, if diversity for you means gender, difference of gender, skin color, you know, maybe the different accents we have and you think, check, check, check, check, check. I'm like, it's not enough. Can we also add diversity of thoughts? And that's the other problem I have with that place, you know?”

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  35. “San Francisco But, you know, so now that you find that cute, you're going to have to forgive me when I mess up my English because English is not my first language. So I always try to make sure people know that. But you know, Lex, this is why I am very interested in what some folks here are working on. And I'm just going to be very selfish here because I want to help her with what she's doing. It's someone like, you know, Nicole Nodsek and her project, you know, with the housing project that they have right now, making sure that Austin remains a town that's affordable for people of all walks of lives. If we can accomplish making sure that all walks of life doesn't matter how little big you're making money-wise, that you can stay in this town so the diversity at that level can remain, then I think Austin stands a chance to really show the world how to do things differently. And what I love about her initiative is just how they really try.”

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  36. “How can hanging out with this person can advance me? You know, you go to a party, you season up. It's like, I'm not going to talk to so and so because that's not going to advance me. Who is going to advance me next? And so this is what I would not want to see here in Austin. And I think maybe there's one way to try to, I really would like to see Austin not go away, San Francisco did and other towns before you.”

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  37. “At first, where are the people who made it, who made this place be what it is? And then it attracts all the blink followers and the bling attracted people. And when those people show up, it's time for all of us to get out. And that's one of my worries about Austin too. And I guess I count myself in it, but, you know, because we also knew RIVs. Always been furious now. How are we going to protect this place”

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  38. “You know, if I were to advance one thing, and I had the same experience after having lived in San Francisco first, then we went to New York. Then we came to Austin. When we came to Austin, I felt it took me a while to put my finger on it. But what I found in Austin, people just hang. People weren't very real. Real. Unlike what you were saying, I feel like in these other places. It's a destination for people who want to come and perform. I think maybe the early San Francisco people, it was different for them. But later, as prosperity starts to come in and success comes in, then you attract a different breed.”

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  39. “No, no. And I think this goes with the other way around. Maybe it has to do with just, you know, when you feel good about yourself, when you're very grounded yourself, it's very easy to open yourself to others. And I'm wondering if that's not the other side of the equation in a way. So no, we don't have a fear towards a foreigner.”

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  40. “Hospitality toads everyone for everyone, especially towards the foreigner, because it's very ingrained in us this understanding that especially the foreigner. The foreigner is called foreigner because a foreigner is coming from somewhere else. So someone has taken the time and the energy, whether in a forced manner or because it's a choice to travel so far to come to a place that's not theirs to start with. That's why we're foreigners again, then it is your duty to welcome them, to be Uber welcome, welcoming to them.”

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  41. “It's a wall of word. Walloff is the main indigenous language of Senegal and it means hospitality. That is what us the people of Senegal are known for. And it transpires in everything that we do, everything that we say. It's a place where I guess with hospitality goes this concept of warmth. So we are a very warm people. So in a nutshell, that's us. That's us. The place where you come. And everybody will just embrace you, make you feel very comfortable, make you look, feel like you're the only person in the world and that we've been waiting for you our whole life, right? So that's my country.”

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