Back to episode — Episode 2502 CWSA 06/11/24
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uld be wrong. It could be that people just adjust to the new technology and it's no big deal. But it sure looks like it's going to be everybody talking all the time everywhere because it's so good. It's so useful anyway. So I saw the Community Notes fact-checking Elon Musk, which I love more than anything in the world. Let me tell you, if you want credibility in your platform, be the owner of the…
← Previous segment →curated by humans, it's not just sales, then you already know that they're going to pull out the books that they don't like, and they're going to be conservative. So you didn't really have to study that. That was kind of obvious from the setup.
I would go further on this story and say that I think this is true: that for a long time, publishers and also authors, we kind of look at the Amazon numbers for what's real. Because Amazon is big enough a proportion of total sales. It's like 85% of book sales, I think. If you look at that and you're number one on that, you're number one, right? Yeah, there's no way around that because Amazon just shows what people actually bought. I don't believe that they mess with those numbers. I've never seen any indication of that. So Amazon is the real number.
But being on the New York Times list can get you more publicity. So the New York Times list should be seen as free publicity from The New York Times. It's not a list of who sold the most books or what the best books are.
We have indication that Optimus, the robot coming from Tesla someday, not right away, is going to be 20 to $30,000 in cost. But I would like to know the operating costs because it seems to me that recharging your robot every day is going to be really expensive. And it seems to me you're going to need a maintenance plan because if your robot breaks, you're going to need somebody there right away. So these are expensive robots.
But I also say, if you could get a robot, let's say you could get a robot that cost you $25,000 to buy, let's say it cost you $5,000 a year for extra energy and for a maintenance contract, do you think you could buy it and then rent it out to companies that want an extra worker? I feel like that's going to be a thing. I feel like ownership of a fleet of robots that people can rent out as they need them is going to be the thing.
Now, if you live in a town like I do, if you go down to the Home Depot store, there'll be a bunch of immigrants or migrants standing on the corner asking for day work. Do you have this in other states? I think a few states have it where it's so well organized that you just drive up to the curb and you say, I've got some landscaping. I need to dig a trench. And you just point to two people and say, get in the car. And then you take them to your house and they dig your trench and you pay them.
And believe it or not, by the way, this is one of the reasons that I'm more pro-migrant and pro-immigrant than a lot of you. The California experience is not like others. Imagine if you will, just hold this in your head, that completely unvetted migrants standing on a corner, and it's not uncommon for a soccer mom to pull up and say, hey, you two, get in the car. I got good work for you today. Now, the truth is it's usually no
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t the woman, but it does happen. It actually does happen. It's usually the man who does the hiring, you know, for safety reasons. But just think about the fact that this has been going on for as long as I've lived in California. And do you know how many problems I've heard where it didn't work out? None. It totally works. The people coming in from Mexico on average are so law-abiding and so inter…
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