one of the day, as far as you know.

All right, let's talk about something interesting for a change. How would you like that? It's a big change, I know. But apparently China — I saw one report on this from the Spectator Index Twitter account — and it says that China will limit minors to playing online games to just three hours a week, with services limited to an hour each Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So if you're a kid in China, the total amount of video games you can play is one hour for each of the three weekend days.

Now what does that suggest? Well, it suggests it might be boring to live in China if you're a teenager. But it makes me wonder about the whole Chinese system versus the American system. Because you know, I think President Xi of China has made a point that their system should be superior in the future. And they do have a few advantages. Let me list a few.

Number one, they can block their teenagers from playing video games all day. Is that good? I don't know. I really don't. You know, your common sense tells you it's destroying brains. But while kids are playing these video games, they're very stimulated and they're doing hand-eye coordination. They've got to think and plan. They're competing. If they have their headphones on, they're talking to other people. They're being social. They're coordinating. They're planning. I'm not entirely sure that video games are bad for kids, especially the ones where they've got the headphones on and they're talking to their friends online at the same time they're playing and stuff. I feel like they might be wrong about this.

Yeah, I get why they're doing it. Probably every parent has the same impulse, right? Your impulse and your common sense is you don't want kids staring at a screen and playing with their thumbs eight hours a day. But here's what else China can do that we can't do. They can get much better control of their drug addiction. Not only can the Chinese, with their harsh system and their full surveillance, not only can they keep people from getting addicted, but they can make us addicted. So they can send us their fentanyl and get their competitor addicted and dying like crazy, while at the same time keeping their own public from having the same problem.

How big of a problem is addiction to modern society? If you were to rate addiction on a scale of one to ten for how big a problem it is to society, it's like a nine, isn't it? It's yeah, it's — I don't know, ten is probably nuclear war or something — but it's like a nine. And China will be in a much better shape for avoiding that nine-sized problem.

Here's another one. I think in America we can't cheat as much against our rivals. Now this is sort of speculation, so I'm assuming this is true. Yeah, I would take a fact check on this for sure. But it seems to me that an American company could just blatantly break the law and spy on a Chinese company or steal their IP without fairly large risk. But it looks like a Chinese company can do anything they want to a foreign company in their country or anywhere else, because their government would support it, so long as it's good for the competition of China. It's good for China. So I feel as though our system doesn't allow us to cheat when we're competing as much. You know, I'm sure there's some cheating going on everywhere. So we might have more video game addiction, but I don't know if that's a plus or a minus. We would have more drug addiction. We're more susceptible to cheating. These are some big things. These are some big deals if you're trying to figure out which country is going to dominate in the future.

And then here's another one. This is really big. Susceptibility to propaganda. Now let's assume that both the United States and — we'll take China as our totalitarian example — both of them are hugely susceptible to propaganda. And I would say completely, right? I don't think there's more propaganda in China than there is in the United States. I probably wouldn't have said that always, but at the moment I could say this with confidence. I don't think we have any less propaganda. It's just it comes from different sources. In our case it comes from the different teams. They just do the propaganda themselves. Whereas in China the government does it all. So we both have terrible propaganda.

But there's a big difference. In China the propaganda is controlled by the government, which means that they can control it in a way that's good for the nation even if it's not good for the people. Whereas in the United States it's just a fight between two competing groups just destroying the country by tearing it apart. So it seems to me that although both China and the United States would be fully propagandized, China could do it in a more controlled, engineered way to get a specific outcome. In the United States it's a free-for-all. We don't know who's going to win the propaganda war. We don't know who's going to be more persuasive on any given topic. I think that's a disadvantage. It would be an advantage if we had a good news industry. In that case we would have accurate news. The Chinese citizens would have inaccurate news and maybe that would give us some advantage. But since we're both getting inaccurate news and we can't tell the difference, then I would say the one who can engineer that inaccurate news the best, which would be China, might have an advantage.

So what would be the advantage of our system? Only one that I know of. Only one advantage that I know of. Now I'm not talking about lifestyle, because there might be a number of lifestyle advantages of freedom. But in terms of the strength of the total country, I think our biggest advantage is creativity and risk-taking. Meaning that we allow it. We allow people to do crazy th