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s to fail, how could they possibly recover? And they can't tell the media that the media is the problem because then the media won't invite them to be on anymore. It's an unsolvable problem. Yeah, I can't see any system or tweak or anything. The only way you could solve this problem is replacing all of the people at the same time, and of course there isn't any way to do that. All right. Colin Rug…
← Previous segment →opposite of what makes sense, but if a small city can elect a mayor who then can make sure that the contracts go to their brother-in-law and anybody else who's going to give them a kickback, we don't have a workable system. See that's a system problem again.
So what I'd like to see is Vivek and Elon coming up with maybe some ideas collectively for how we can make sure that if money is sent to an urban place for urban development, that it just doesn't get stolen. Because if you don't fix that, there's no point in giving anybody any money for anything. And I also worry that Republicans maybe have written off the inner cities because they're not getting many votes there. And I don't think you can fix it. It doesn't look fixable to me. See the trouble is if you put too many people who have too many problems in one place, I don't know that you can ever fix it. You would have to move the people, which would be illegal. And if they don't want to move, then how's that going to work?
I mean I think you could take, if you took let's say a teenager who's in this bad environment, there's gangs and there's crime and the schools are bad and everything. If you took that one teenager and said all right, let's see what happens if we put this one teenager in a safe place with a good school and no gangs, probably you'd get a pretty good outcome. But if everybody is in this one place and they all have the similar problems, they're not going to feel like they have to escape because they're just sort of living the same life as everybody around them. And I don't know that that's fixable. I mean you almost have to distribute the people who are in the same bad situation so they don't reinforce each other's bad habits.
Yeah, you've heard the thing, you are the average of your five closest friends, right? What happens if you live where your five closest friends are gang members? Do you really have a chance? Not really. So how much money could you send into that situation to fix it? There's no amount. There's no amount that fixes that. In fact the more money, the worse it would get. So you gotta fix the five friends problem first. And I don't know how. The only thing I could think of would be a massive improvement in mobility. And the mobility would have to include, can you go somewhere? Can you afford to move? Can you get a job if you go there? And do you have enough school choice that you can move at least the school? So if you could move the options for any one person to say you know what, I need to get where I can get five good frien
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ds around my teenage kid, and maybe those friends will influence them. Now that would be a real solution. But sending money? No. I mean if Trump decided that HUD didn't really have a future, I wouldn't be surprised anyway. I saw Chamath talking about on the All-In Pod. Chamath, I think I say his name wrong. It's Chamath, right? And then I never try to say his last name because I'll just embarrass…
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