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Corruption is endemic to governments. I don't think this is fixable, and human history would back me up. If there is a way to make money (or get power) by cheating the system, people will do it. It turns out that to get a government to not be corrupt, you need to attack the incentive structure...

Uh-huh. Regulations only save lives. Like those Certificate of Need regulations that stop hospitals from getting built? How about the regulations that hairdressers have a 1000 hours of training before being allowed to cut hair? There are countless regulations that are needless and only serve to...

You are right about the size not mattering. North Korea is just as bad as serfdom in that respect. But most countries are not, as you are free to leave countries, just not enter other ones without permission. This doesn't matter too much on a practical level, but on a moral level it really does...

Well, you do have the option of where to work and what to do. The reason I referred to serfs as slaves was they were not allowed to leave the village.

Not Europe, at least, as there was no free exchange of wealth. The too much of economic exchange in feudal europe was the enslaved peasant (called a serf) giving taxes to the feudal lord. The guilds further distorted the free market.

Oh, that's crap (not you; Zeihan). Growth is slowing because America isn't a developing country and America is on the cutting edge of technology in many things. So for America's GDP to grow, we need to discover something new. For China, they just steal our stuff. For most normal countries, they...

Did he actually argue that (I don't really have time to go listen to it now)? I could see the end of globalism, but not capitalism (the exchange of goods/services for money). Also, the growth of capitalism comes from innovation, and I don't see why that would end.