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I would say number one is inequality. We've kind of talked about that.

How do we
allow ourselves to break the systemic shackles of institutionalised poverty that we
have in America? The second is climate change. The way that we live our life and
our desire for progress has fundamental implications to how every other country
also wants to live, and frankly, has a right to live and that creates an
unsustainable earth. And then the third is skills and education, which is that
we've been lying to a lot of people for a really long time about what it takes to
be productive. This is what I mean by again, talk about systemic institutionalised
lies. We created a grandiose, highly defined scale of four decimal places on
productivity and education. This is why people go to school, they get into $120,000
of debt, then they're up-sold a master's degree, then they're up-sold some other
degree, then they're up-sold the certificate.

And all of a sudden they have $250,000 of debt, no chance to get out and no
meaningful chance of employment because it never mapped to what the world needs. If
you can number one, just allow people to understand how to be a part of labor
capital. Number two, create environmental security so that we have food security,
resource security. And then number three, allow people to move towards a binary
definition of productivity. I think that you solve the three high order issues of
our modern society. So let me give you a more practical example. You have a kid
who's growing up lower middle class, and let's talk about the future state. She
grows up, let's say, she's born with this birth dividend from the age of one, she
has $2,000 bucks compounding in an ETF that just owns the S&P 500, so she's just
tracking global GDP.

As goes the world, so does she. Let's think about that? What are we grow at? We
grow at 8% a year, so she'll have almost $300,000 just from that. That doesn't
include any dividends reinvested, that doesn't count more that she could
theoretically invest because she gets a taste of ownership. So that's piece number
one. So now we're breaking the classic definition of labor and capital even if it's
in a small way. The second thing is that she lives in a world where she has access
to food and water. She's able to move if she wants to, to a reasonable cost
affordable plant-based diet if she wants, so that it diminishes her impact and toll
on the earth. She's able to get access to transportation on a fleet of BEV cars
that doesn't basically spew carbon into the atmosphere. She doesn't have to worry
about all kinds of other populations invading where she lives because of food
insecurity, or water insecurity, or rising sea levels.

So she can live a predictable life. And then she goes to boot camp to learn to be a
nurse or a coder. She's able to sign up for an ISA as opposed to student debt. She
realizes that she doesn't need to be $200,000 in debt. And she graduates and she's
able to pay off her ISA in three or four years. And she has 100% employment because
as a nurse right now, there's 100% employment. Now think of that for any kid living
in the middle class or the lower middle class today. Take a different example where
a kid becomes part of the green revolution and instead joins a marketplace where he
can become an expert in installing solar panels, or hydro panels, or artificial
turf. Now think of a different example where a kid decides that she wants to become
a coder. Again, all of these things are structurally constructive for GDP, which
means that the 8% could actually go up higher.

So bucket number one wins. Bucket number two wins because the environment gets
better. And then bucket number three wins because these people have now moved to a
binary definition of productivity and they're that much closer to being happy. We
have to understand that most people, given economic security just want to be left
the fuck alone. I mean they just want to have a nice life, raise kids, have some
memories, have some fun, drink some beers, watch some football. People are good
normal ordinary folks living ordinary lives. And we complicate their life because
we have all these unintended consequences that we need to undo now.

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