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ther way? Because correct me if I'm wrong, don't we give more money to poorer citizens relative to how much they put into the system? Is that not true? Or is that one of those things that you assume is true but it's not? Obviously backwards because sometimes in economics you get that a lot. Somebody says not true. Yeah because I think there might be a contrarian view on this. But my point is this:…

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ude and your philosophy and yet you would be in a minority even among the group you agree with? So the people who think that there's a global elite, at least in this audience, are the minority even among an audience that's largely agrees with you on other stuff.

Does that bother you? Does it ever bother you to be in the minority opinion even among the group of people who are on your side in general? I don't know that it should. I just wondered because that's probably just how you're personally constructed. Sometimes people like it. I tend to like being a contrarian so I'd probably like it.

Well I'm going to say this about that. I don't see it. I don't see it. So yeah I just don't see the Bilderberg Group or the World Economic Forum or anything. I just don't see them as doing what people imagine they're doing. But imagine let's say they are. Let me ask you this. Don't you think the other billionaires have noticed? What do you think they're doing about it?

What is your understanding of the world if you believe that a certain set of billionaires or elites are trying to grab power for themselves? What is it that you imagine that all the other billionaires are doing at the same time? Are the other billionaires watching and saying yeah you know I'm okay with that if those other billionaires get all the power? That's fine because then we billionaires rule. I don't think it works like that, does it?

If you're one of the billionaires don't you think that the other billionaires are your competition? You don't think they're on your side do you? Does Musk think that Bezos is his competition or do they think they're buddies in the elite? And is Elon Musk in the elite? What if there is an elite trying to control the world but Elon Musk is not one of them? Who are you gonna bet on? Would you bet on all the elite or Elon Musk if you assume that he was on the other team? If these teams even exist. I don't think they even exist.

So I don't know how the people who think that there's a billionaire elite trying to control the country, I don't know how they explain the other elites. Because if you're telling me that Peter Thiel is on the same team, I don't think so. I don't think so at all. If you're telling me that Musk is part of this global elite, I don't think so. I suppose anything's possible, right? Anything's possible. Could be fooled by anything but I don't think so.

So just consider that if you think the global elites are in control you have to have your theory should include what are the other billionaires doing about it. You know is Bill Gates in that club or is Bill Gates one of the people that that club would like to take out? How would you know?

Something about central banks again I guess that's what I'm supposed to say. You can tie it all together by saying there's something I don't understand about central banks so it's probably them. It's probably them.

There's an interesting article I will call your attention to, speaking of Peter Thiel, by E

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lizabeth Dwoskin who's writing for the New York Times. And she tweeted that for a month she had been working on a big story about Peter Thiel and about how he left Facebook et cetera and it morphed into an examination of the ambitions to be an architect of the new American right. I don't know if that's true. Do you think Peter Thiel wants to be an architect of the new American right? I don't know…

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