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It would follow that people are actually better off, not bad for a country everyone seems to have written off. let's look at some other indicators. according to the demographer japan is the healthiest country in the world. given that the average life span is 83 years, the highest in the world, you would expect health care costs to dominate. remember, japan has universal health care. again, you would be wrong. japan spends only 8% of its gdp on health care, half the percent the united states spends. now look at education. in the very near future, for every japanese new born, japan will also hav...

Maybe that's not a bad thing since the afnlg life span is -- since the average life span is 120. >> i believe that. >> it is going to be by the time some of these -- >> why not putz around until you are 40? >> eventually we will all run out of money. you have people with master's degrees who are -- they say they are dog sitters and pulling up weeds and they are living with their parents. i disagree with the whole thing they are not moving. i know a lot of young adults who have moved out of their parents' bedroom and into the basement. they really are moving. >> and good for them. it is a big m...

You know, the story about you is pretty interesting. because i guess the first time you played football, peewee football, you were a quarterback. >> yes. >> you ran your first run was 60 some odd yards for a touchdown? >> first time i touched the football as a little leaguer, 8 years old. over 40 years ago playing the game. and i've always loved it since then. >> the average life span, we were talking about this before you came on air, of a nfl player, i thought for years. you're saying 3.5. >> 3 1/2 years is the average over the last 25 years. >> i've interviewed a lot of professional footbal...

Ari was a good athlete, but by no means state champion in lots of sports. so i think you know, life is a long, long time. it's now you know, average life span is 80 years, you don't have to succeed at kindergarten to end up being a successful person. >> dr. emanuel, one thing that i think your book seems to diverge from the parenting manuals you get in park slope these days, was the level basically of physical violence. do you think kids are raised too soft to become the rahm emanuals and zeke emanuels these days. >> my mother claimed she was a pacifist and, but she couldn't prevent us from ro...

Is a win/win win a game where people who gain to the changes that would not be made so that is the story we need to tell. >> client from penn state university and what can we as student activist to on campus to help make students realize the benefits of capitalism? >> one of the most important things is put things in historical context. most people are so ignorant how much community has made with capitalism the average life span was 30 now today it is 78 in the united states and 82 in japan. 200 years ago 90 percent of the people were illiterate. now it is 14% because of capitalism. if you loo...