s have $200 million? I had to check on his net worth, and of course net worth numbers are usually ridiculous, made up. But it says his net worth was 600 million, and he put 200 million into one bet. That's a hell of a bet. And this entrepreneur has some credentials, but some scientists are skeptical. Well, I'm going to join these skeptical scientists, but I do love how Tony Robbins is putting his own money into it.

Let's call this another example of people who have given up on the government. Why would Tony Robbins put $200 million of his own money into this? Is it because he's a good investor? I doubt it. I mean, this would be weird to put a third of your net wealth into one company that hasn't proven its technology. That would not normally be the definition of a good investor. So why would he do it? Well, I've got a few opinions. One is I think when you're really successful, you end up with a God complex. Speaking from experience, you end up with a God complex, and you wonder, well, what else can I do? If I did all this, what else can I do? Like, I don't know what my limit is. And I ran into that problem when Dilbert became successful. There was this period of my life, maybe five years, where everything I touched was successful. I make a book, it's a bestseller. I make a comic, it's a big hit. Yeah, it was just everything. I go into the speaking circuit, I'm one of the highest paid speakers. So for a while I thought to myself, I wonder what my limit is. Like, should I be shooting higher? Should I be building a rocket to Mars?

And you could see that Elon Musk probably has the same thing. He builds a car company that nobody could build, and then he probably has to wonder, well, maybe I could have done more than that. Like, what's bigger than that? How about putting human life on Mars? Kind of a God complex, doing things that don't seem like they're possible. So some of it is actually just people testing their own limits. But some of it, the bigger story, is I think we've given up on the government. There was a time when I thought, well, the big problems have to be solved by the government. You know, a war has to be solved by the government, a pandemic, government. Fixing climate change? Well, that's probably going to be a government thing. It's so big. But nobody really trusts the government to fix anything. So if you really think that climate change is a problem, and you're Tony Robbins, and you know that you've done things that didn't even look possible, you probably say to yourself, you know what, maybe it's up to me. With great power comes great responsibility. And I think that's what's behind that actually. So good luck with that.

Thomas Massie