Lol. Sorry, I was trying to be sarcastic. It was meant to be a little serious and a little funny.

We do live in one world and ideally everyone would be a capitalist. IMO, one of the great tragedies has been China. Half a century with 1.2 billion people not making products for me to buy. I hope for the continuation of that massive human resource to continue up the developemnt chain of production (instead of cheap low quality to more original design, ie go from manufacturing to services). What a richer world it would be with the fruits of the mind rather than the muscle from 1/5 of the world's population.

I find it remarkable that the European powers have/continue to shoot themselves in the foot with all of this socialist nonsense. You would have thought the late 80's and early 90's would have shaken some of the more fool hardy away but alas we see 35 hour work weeks and labor markets as rigid as they ever have been.

The US I fear is following suit, if more slowly down this failed path.

A toast to you my friend and perhaps we will meet someday in New Zealand or Taiwan. For 'Who is John Galt'? I suspect you may know.