Name: Why The American Dream Is Gone — But The Chinese Dream Is Alive
Uploaded: 2018-05-03T07:00:31.000Z
Duration: 2 min 56 s

- If you are a member of the working or middle class

- 如果你是工薪階層或中產階級的一員。

in the United States your life has not improved

在美國，你的生活沒有得到改善

We have taken hundreds and hundreds of millions of people

我們已經帶走了數以億計的人。

out of poverty around the world over the course

The rise of China has been extraordinary,

1.4 billion people we've never seen anything like it

14億人，我們從來沒有見過這樣的事情。

open borders and free trade, no question.

開放邊界和自由貿易，毫無疑問。

But you have lost a lot of opportunities in the West.

You have created much greater structural inequality

If you are a member of the working or middle class

如果你是工薪階層或中產階級的一員。

the American dream no longer applies to you

while the Chinese feel like the Chinese dream

that's something that they can be a part of.

That obviously undermines the notion of liberal democracy.

這顯然破壞了自由民主的概念。

they're capitalists 'cause they don't have capital

他們是資本家，因為他們沒有資本。

then they're not gonna support a capitalist system

那他們就不會支持資本主義制度。

and they're particularly not gonna support it

if they think that the capitalists on top

If their infrastructure isn't being invested into,

如果他們的基礎設施沒有被投資到。

if their schools aren't being invested into,

如果他們的學校沒有被投資到。

if their policing isn't being invested into,

如果他們的治安沒有被投入到。

if their healthcare is worse than it used to be,

如果他們的醫療服務比以前更差。

if we're not responding to a massive opioid crisis

如果我們不應對大規模的阿片類藥物危機，

then they're not going to support these governments.

那麼他們就不會支持這些政府。

And by the way, we're saying this at a time

順便說一句，我們在說這個的時候

when the US economy is growing at a strong clip.

我們是在國際貨幣基金組織的時候說這話的

has just upgraded their expectations for global growth

剛剛上調了他們對全球增長的預期

in 2018 and 2019 to 3.9%, the best the world economy

在2018年和2019年達到3.9%，是世界經濟最好的。

has done since before the financial crisis.

自金融危機前以來，一直在做。

If that's the case now, what's gonna happen

如果現在是這樣，那會怎麼樣呢？

What's gonna happen suddenly when we don't have

and we're spending like crazy and increasing the deficit.

What's gonna happen suddenly when times get tighter

時局越來越緊，會突然發生什麼？

and when the corporations aren't hitting the profitability

而當企業沒有達到利潤率的時候。

我的意思是很明顯這是一個情況

So people think it was an illegitimate election

所以人們認為這是一次非法的選舉。

but there's no question he got the Republican nomination

但毫無疑問，他獲得了共和黨的提名。

超過16名其他候選人和特德-克魯茲

Bernie Sanders was clearly enormously popular

伯尼桑德斯顯然是非常受歡迎的

on the Democratic side, like, whoever won

在民主黨方面，喜歡，誰贏得了

the US election, we've not seen an election like this

美國大選，我們從來沒有看到過這樣的選舉。

with this kind of anti-establishment sentiment

in certainly, not as long as I've been alive,

當然，只要我還活著，就不會。

in the German parliament since Word War II.

Given their history that's extraordinary.

考慮到他們的歷史，這很不尋常。

In Italy, the Five Star movement, the Northern League

在意大利，五星運動、北方聯盟。

winning from the far left and the far right,

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Why The American Dream Is Gone — But The Chinese Dream Is Alive

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