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ferent topics. Everything from what is good management in the Dilbert comic to how to fail almost everything still big which should be about success and one of the most influential books on success ever written, a book on persuasion which has had a tremendous impact according to people who privately tell me what they've used that for and I could go on, the reframes that you saw at the beginning et…

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ke the food and we're just going to walk out and eat it." Now, in our current world, would they be arrested? Nope. They wouldn't be arrested. Depending where they were, they could just walk in the store, steal some food, eat it, come back tomorrow for breakfast, eat some more, and I don't think it would ever be stopped. Now, do you think that a big grocery store could start arresting starving people who the government had just cut off from food? Not really. Not really. They just couldn't do it. So I do wonder if the food b

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anks and whatever else would replace the SNAP benefits in the short run. There'll probably be some food banks that cover the gap. But what happens if they really can't get food? Like actually legitimately can't legally get food, 40 million people. Aren't they going to just clean out the grocery stores? What else would happen? So I'm hoping that this all gets solved peacefully and the budget gets r…

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