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nion piece on this by saying that doesn't mean we're doomed. It does mean we need to innovate. So it's sorted down to engineers need to save the world. Has that ever happened before? Engineers have to save the world. No way around it because the politicians aren't going to do it. If they did they would be starving their own public. Nobody's going to do that. You have to engineer your way out of it…
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I feel as if you're seeing some kind of a political shift that I like a lot. And it goes like this. Most of our future problems are going to be technology related. In other words you'd have to understand the technology in order to make the right decision. So they're technology related and they're going to be complicated. Take any issue with China, climate change, whatever. They're complicated. Who is the best type of person to make a difficult decision that's scientific and complicated? A politician who's 80 years old? No that would be exactly the wrong person to be in charge. An 80 year old politician with no technical background. You couldn't have a worse choice for a leader in today's world than somebody with that kind of a background. And that's who we elect. We elect the people who aren't even close to having the kind of skills that you would need to do the job.
Now I obviously know that the experts make recommendations to things etc. So it's not the president who has to have all the technical knowledge but I don't see it working. I don't see our presidents being technically competent just in terms of the decisions. So it looks like our billionaire class, let's call them the super capables, have decided
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that they have to take control and that may not be a bad thing. For example you saw that Amazon, let's say Jeff Bezos it must have been behind it, decided to offer to help with the vaccination rollout. Likewise some other big corporations are helping as well. So if people like Bezos and Elon Musk and Gates are just saying well we're gonna have to solve this ourselves, literally I guess I'll have…
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