Andrew Tate on Accessible Corruption

So I'm not an Andrew Tate Fan Boy and haven't really been aware of him that long, despite him having been on the scene for a while. While Andrew Tate has just recently gotten the amount of attention and dare I say "Fame" that he's achieved, he's actually been around in the make money online and entrepreneur communities for several years as I understand it. Recently however he's gotten a lot of traction online, some say it's due to us living in such a PC and sissified world and people are fed up with it and enjoy that his message is something different. Regardless he's garnered a lot of attention recently after getting banned from a number of major social media platforms.

Now not to get off on a tangent, but this is a pretty troubling thing. We saw this happen to Alex Jones, Donald Trump and a number of other popular figures and it's actually quite disturbing how this was done, seemingly in coordination ie one big tech social media company takes someone down and the others quickly follow suit. It's also troubling how the private sector and the Government are seemingly in bed together. If you saw the recent Joe Rogan Podcast with Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg spoke about how when the Hunter Biden laptop story came out the FBI approached Facebook and told them it was mis-information and not to post it and Facebook listened. This potentially would have changed the results of the election, but at the very least is something the American people deserved to know, especially seeing as how the Government has essentially issued a war against mis-information while at the same time being the largest spreaders of it themselves when it comes to pushing certain narratives. People need to realize that even if you don't like Alex Jones or Donald Trump or even Andrew Tate for that matter, what's done to people you don't like can also be done to people you do like, or even you yourself. That's a bit of a tangent though, that's not what we're discussing today.

What I wanted to discuss today is a topic Andrew Tate recently brought up which was the concept of "Accessible Corruption". Andrew Tate recently went on the Patrick Bet David Valuetainment Podcast, if you haven't checked it out check it out I think you'll like it. In one clip from the show he talked about why he lived in Romania, and brought up this topic of accessible corruption. He went on to say that on the surface most people probably think that America is less corrupt than most other countries. The truth however is that corruption is present in all countries and the USA just does a better job of covering it up, and also in the USA corruption isn't available to benefit the common man, it's only available to those in power, in Government, CEO's, the rich, the wealthy and the elite. Let's examine this.

So I probably don't need to convince you we live in a corrupt country. Look at the private prison system, we have more people locked up than any other country on Earth and in large part for non-violent things that don't protect society or make anyone safer. Why is this done? Corruption, lobbyists lobby to keep this going and they give kickbacks to politicians from the private prison system to keep people locked up and to profit from it. Or look at politicians, prior to Covid really kicking off both Democratic and Republican Congressman and Senators were trading based on inside information they had on covid. This was wrong and illegal yet they profited from it, there were no repurcussions, and we haven't heard much about it besides a a couple news stories and an initial bit of outrage. Or even look at someone like Nancy Pelosi, not only did her husband recently get a slap on the wrist for a DUI but she and her husband are basically a meme for insider trading. She meets with Facebook or Google, then buys a bunch of stock, and the government decides not to regulate big tech, the stock surges and she and her husband profit to the tune of millions, all the while she's also the one championing passing a law to ban politicians from trading and acting like she's the good guy. The moral of the story, the USA is corrupt, point blank period, its just limited to benefiting the rich and elite.

I'll throw one more example at you, here in my city of Chicago and my home state of Illinois when we legalized Marijuana the Pritzker Family ie the family of the Governor and the Wrigley Family of Wrigley Gum, Wrigley Field, The Wrigley Building, etc basically formed a cartel or a monopoly and didn't let anyone else besides themselves into the industry. This has led to consumers paying higher prices, less variety of product, locking entrepreneurs, people of color and small business owners out of this industry, and hurting all tax payers in the sense that people continue to buy on the black or grey market so the state doesn't even earn that much tax money to benefit the people. This is corruption.

Take a country like Mexico, Columbia or any number of countries in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. If you're doing 10 over the speed limit you may get pulled over and the police may require a bribe of a few hundred pesos, essentially a trivial amount of money. Some may say you're a victim of corruption and I suppose in a sense you are, but the alternative is they give you an official ticket which is 10x as much as the policemans bribe and it just goes into the system. The corrupt policeman in a way is actually saving you money and the money actually has more of a direct benefit to a real person and their family than just going to the government. I guess what I'm saying is the USA isn't in fact anymore honest or moral or not corrupt as these other countries, our corruption is just swept under the rug and only benefits a few, you could even argue we have worse corruption than these other countries just due to the sheer volume of money these politicians, CEOs and elite people are getting.

How else could corruption benefit you, well maybe you're starting a business, rather than having to go through a bunch of red tape with the Government, you give a little gift to a regulator or Government official and you can start your business cheaper and with less headache than dealing with the Government.

Essentially the case that Andrew Tate is making is why play a game that's rigged against you, rather than living in the USA where only the top of the top benefit from corruption, living in a country like Romania he as a normal person stands to benefit from it as well.

So what's the point of this whole story, well firstly I just thought it was an interesting way of looking at things, but secondly, it kind of comes back to lifestyle design. When you're deciding where to live, where to work, where to start a business think long and hard about what you want, what you desire, what you want out of life and make calculated and deliberate decisions to bring this to fruition. When we think about where to live things like income taxes and property taxes play a role in our decisions. When we think about starting a business things like tax rates and how business friendly a location is play into this. So why wouldn't we consider how accessible corruption is to benefit us when deciding where to live or operate a business. Would you rather live in a country where only Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and their friends can benefit from corruption, and a society that acts like that doesn't happen, or would you rather live in a country where its out in the open and understood that's how things run, and you have a chance to benefit from that system as well?