sting Engineering, one of China's big tech giants, Huawei, just filed a patent for a battery that they've juiced to have a 1,800 mile range for automobiles. And it's solid state EV. And they think it can get over 1,800 miles in one charge and charge up to 80% of it in five minutes. Now I'm not saying that Elon would use that technology because Tesla would probably invent its own stuff, but I would bet you that somewhere in Tesla there's a laboratory where they're testing all kinds of new battery manufacturing and storage. And this one would be about three times better than normal, two to three times better than normal batteries.

So if you're betting on batteries and solar never being competitive economically, you really have to calculate in the fact that it could improve by 200 or 300% within a year. I'm not saying it will, but its potential is it's going to improve maybe five times, 10 times in 10 years.

Changing the topic here for a second, I had an interview, I guess you'd call it that, a podcast with Jordan Peterson the other day. Now it's not published. It'll be on his site, not mine. So Jordan Peterson was nice enough to talk to me for a few hours. I'll let you know when it's on YouTube. But one of the things he mentioned is that envy is a motivator. Like if somebody envies something, it'll get you off the couch, but not in a good way.

And I was thinking, you know, that really explains a lot of what we see that we think is politics because if you're doing fine yourself or you expect to do fine, then Trump doesn't bother you. But if you're not doing fine and you don't expect to do fine, the fact that he's a billionaire who's had this privileged life and everything seems to work out for him and he's got beautiful women in his past, etc., you probably have a lot of envy. Same with Musk and also same with the MAGA base because the MAGA base at the moment is getting everything it wants. Well, not quite. We'll talk about that. But they're also happy.

Imagine being one of the 50% of Democrats who are depressed and being treated by a therapist and you put out 200 job interview requests and got no answers at all. So you can't even get a job and pay for your groceries. And those darn MAGA people seem to be working and having babies and having a good time. I wonder if envy is something like 80% of all political opinion. If you're a socialist, it's really about bringing down the people who did better than you, right? It's not even as much about improving the people at the bottom as it is about reducing the distance between the top and the bottom.

So this kind of changed my filter on life. I used to think, oh, there must be a hundred reasons to not like somebody or something. But what if there's only one? If they're doing better than you, you just don't like it.

Now I've got a unique window into that because I was born in a town where I was not one of the rich ones. We were on the lower end of the economic spectrum, but I was directly across from a ski slope where all the richest people hung out. So every morning I'd look out this big window and I'd be standing in the house that my parents literally built with their own two hands because they couldn't afford to buy a house. And I'm looking at all the rich people skiing because you actually see them skiing. And you see their big houses on the mountain. And I would be filled with envy and it would be very motivating. And I would think, damn it, I'm gonna have to be a lawyer or a business person. I got to make some money. I gotta compete with all these rich people on the mountain. So I definitely feel it.

I think envy probably describes most of life, but there are two kinds of envy. The benign type, which is what I just described, benign as in all it did was motivate me. But it definitely motivated me. And then there's the malicious type where somebody says, "Hey, wouldn't it be a good idea to destroy a Tesla dealership?" That would be the bad kind. And you saw how easily people went into it. I mean, were you amazed at how easy it was to get people to destroy Tesla automobiles? Do you think that was just a political opinion? No, that was envy. I think that was envy disguised as some kind of political action.

As you know, Elon Musk says he's going to start a third party called the America Party. I would like to apologize in advance that I will write that as American Party instead of America Party and I will get that wrong 100 more times because that's the problem with the name. It's easily confused. But he hasn't filed the paperwork yet. There was a hoax online that showed some FEC paperwork filed, but that was not true. That got debunked.

And I noticed that when people talk about Elon Musk and his third party thing that many people default to what I call analogy thinking. Analogy thinking is where something reminds you of something else and then you mistakenly believe that because it reminds you of something else that the new thing will take the same direction as the thing it reminds you of. That is not reason. It's not argument. It's not logic. It's really just bad thinking.

Now I do think that analogies can give you an idea where to look, you know, if you want to look for