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t I'm just guessing here. I haven't seen a picture of her. Maybe. And I know 80 some. And NPR is not even really pretending to be any kind of an independent news outlet. It's just a lefty organ. So once somebody who really did know what's happening, you know, not somebody guessing, somebody who was in the middle of the belly of the beast called them out for what they really are, what did the CEO d…
← Previous segment →ng a little more sizzle. Oh we had a war today. Nobody was killed really. And that's supposed to impress me? We had a war with nobody killed. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. It's just a boring war. It's going to be. It's coming up.
Julian Assange warned us a while ago that the goal of war is never to end the war and it's never to win. It's to drain money out of the pockets of the citizens and put it in the pockets of the powerful people. Is Julian Assange wrong that the real purpose of war is to transfer your money to the rich people who already have a lot? He's not wrong. It's not the only thing happening but he's not wrong. Meaning that it does in fact do that. And those powerful people have more control over whether we go to war than you do. So it's sort of right. It's not the whole story.
What are you showing me here? I'm going to look at this. The bright side is world wars are the only ones we win, right? Exactly.
All right. We'll get to that. But did you notice that this time Israel put a price tag on their latest action? So Iran, you know we'll talk more, but they sent some missiles and some drones and Israel defeats almost all of them with our help and then they put a price tag on it. They said well it cost us a little over a billion dollars to defend. Have you ever seen anybody put a price tag on a single battle? Has that ever happened before? Do you know why they put a price tag on it? Because they're asking for money from the United States. So Israel put a price tag on their action. Well here's another billion dollars. That's why we're asking for money.
Now the fact that they had the guts to put a price tag on that is number one really good persuasion. It's very good persuasion because it fits with their trying to get funding etc. But it's so on the nose that the trouble is that when you've got this Assange quote sitting out there that's really all about transferring money to rich people and then Israel gives you a price tag for the battle and it's over a billion dollars, that does really play to Assange's view that maybe these wars are a little more optional than they are presented to us.
Now I'm no fool so I know the Middle East is complicated and it's not all about the money but the money is always going to be a big part of it. It's not nothing. I don't think it's most of it and I don't think it's the main reason anybody's doing anything but it's a lot.
All right. Bill Gates and Jamie Dimon both think that AI could lead to shorter work weeks. I say those are terrible predictions because billionaires don't work less when they become billionaires. The fact that you're able to work less doesn't seem to be related to how much people work. Am I right? I mean Elon Musk, he's not taking a day off. Bill Gates himself, he just changed what he did. He changed it to charity, to giving it away, but still he's still working. And Jamie Dimon, does Jamie Dimon need to work? How much money does Jamie Dimon have? He doesn't need to work but he still works.
So the very people who are saying that we're going to work less
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when we don't need to work are the ones who are working even though they don't need to work. I feel like they're disproving their own argument. I don't need to work but you see me here literally seven days a week. I work seven days a week but I don't need to. It's just who I am. I wouldn't know how to not work. So here's what I think. I think the aggressive people who need to work for whatever re…
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