rations? Do you think it'll be people who are on the committee that were doing reparations? Of course it is. Some of them. So this seems to be just another way to funnel tax money to reparations advocates without ever getting any reparations. So I don't believe this will lead to reparations because even Gavin doesn't think that's a good idea. But it will lead to people who want reparations getting paid and that should shut them up. So there's that.

But let's talk about reparations. I believe I'm the most qualified person to do this given my public reputation. Let me say this as clearly as possible. If I were going to give advice to the black Americans, what's the first thing I should do if I wanted to give advice on success to black Americans? What's the first thing I should do? Shut the fuck up. That's what I should do. Why do I think I can advise black Americans? Didn't I just read you a reframe that says even if people ask for advice or you think they need it, it never helps. And I learned this because I actually spent quite a bit of my time in the past trying to figure out what would be the best way to help black Americans. And then when I thought I was making like a little progress, I was informed by black Americans that they don't need any help. They might need some money. They might need some funding to get things done, but they don't need any advice. To which I say, you know what? You're completely right about that. Advice is what you give people who you believe are somehow below you. I hate to say that, but somehow they need advice and you don't. How did you come up with that? Why did they need the advice and you're not the one who needs the advice? Why would you even think that? So I think that when you offer people advice and help, you infantilize them and you take away some of their agency. I believe that the best thing that you could do for black America is say, "We're not going to give you anything. How about nothing?" Oh, but the unfairness of the past. Yeah, it was very unfair. What's your point? Well, because of the unfairness of the past, we should be compensated. To which I say that doesn't connect. There's all kinds of unfair things in the past. Doesn't mean you get paid. No, no, but because it was so unfair and we know which group of people did it to which other group, that would be reparations. To which I say, why? What's the logic there? There's no connecting logic. There's something that happened with other people who were not us and you didn't like it. So do I get reparations for being born short? Do I get reparations for being bald and nearsighted? Do you get reparations if you're born dumb? Because you can't get much done if you're born dumb. No, there is no world in which people are better off if we can say, "Oh, somebody needs to pay somebody else because they have bigger problems." There are no special problems. Black people don't have special problems. They have problems. They're real. I think systemic racism is real. That's a real problem. But if you tell people, you know, you can just overcome that problem by doing the same thing that everybody does to overcome that problem. Wait, what? Yeah. Everybody who overcomes the problem of poverty does it the same way. What? But what if there's discrimination? There's not discrimination in favor of you. Every company wants to hire you if you'll just go get an education, get a little training. They all want to hire you. You could find mentors so easily because they want to do it. You have everything you need to succeed, but you have to do it the way everybody does it. You can't do it a magic way. You have to do it the way everybody does it. Stay out of jail. Stay off drugs. Keep your family together, get the best education you can. There is no other way. Reparations, even if we gave you a big pile of money, what would you do with it? Do you think if you check back in 5 years, everybody would be okay? Oh, we got reparations. That fixed everything. No, th