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from the back door, they can make the robot go look through your stuff, couldn't they? If you're not home, could our intelligence people take over your robot and then tell it to search through your drawers and find all your crimes? Look through your computer. You could tell it to steal the password from the owner, couldn't you? Because the robot could just observe the password being typed in. Mayb…
← Previous segment →se commission will no longer be automatic. So you get to negotiate it. To which I said, you couldn't negotiate before? What do you mean you couldn't negotiate? I've negotiated. Was I not supposed to? Was that illegal when I negotiated? I thought that was legal.
So I first learned about this commission problem when I was trying to build my house back in 2008. And I tried to hire an architect. Have you ever — has everybody tried to do this? Hire an architect. And I talked to the architect and they seemed qualified and good. And I'd say, all right, so what do you charge to design my house? And they'd say, well, it's X percentage of the cost of your house. And I said, wait, what? It's based on a percentage of the cost to build your house? And I said, now let me see if I get this straight. The cost for you to design a room that's 15 by 15 is going to be less than the cost for you to design a room that's 20 by 20? So just the fact that it's larger, I've got to pay $100,000 more? What? Because I'm sure that those are just numbers you're putting on a page. You're not working harder. You're just putting a different number on there.
Now, you know, you could argue there's more rooms and stuff like that. But the point is that when a house cost $100,000, architects were getting a percentage of the $100,000, which was probably a reasonable number when the architect was doing exactly the same work. But the cost of the average house became $2 million depending where you live. They would still get a percentage and nobody thought to change that. So I just rejected everybody who gave me tha
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t business model and hired somebody who did it for a flat fee. So I just negotiated it basically and made it go away. Now it's the same thing if you were buying or selling a house. If you weren't already negotiating the broker's fee, you could have. I don't even know why this is the law. You could have. All right, there's a very funny story about Francis Macron. Now I didn't know this was happen…
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