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zation. And when you, cuz the left they're against monopolies but they don't see a government monopoly as bad and that's exactly what socialism is. It's like a government in charge of monopoly. So like if it's like yeah yeah I see your point that's pretty good because what people have been saying before is centralization versus decentralization and that has no persuasive power conceptually but whe…

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election. We don't want to take that risk. Someday somebody's gonna know we did it. That'll be terrible for us. That's bad for the country. Don't do it. Even then people are gonna think they did it and that is terrible for the credibility of the system.

Part of what makes America work, not part of, the biggest thing that makes America work is credibility. Because we don't trust other humans and we don't trust companies and we don't trust any politician necessarily but we trust that we live in a system that catches most of the bad behavior. Not all of it but we do a pretty good job of reining in the bad behavior. And if you have a system where the voters can't tell if their vote made a difference or if they were influenced by social media that's no longer a stable system. And I think we're at the beginning of the point where the public will say it doesn't even matter if I vote because it's not up to me. It's up to five people who determine the algorithms. So I think it's some kind of a special judge, special court would be the quickest way to get somebody who we have a little credibility in in place to at least get some visibility on this stuff. I think that would be important.

All right thank you. Thank you. I'm optimistic that something could happen there by the way.

All right let's talk to you Mark. Mark you there? You have a question for me? Mark, Vermont.

I see them requiring any working person to get a W-2 or 1099 miscellaneous if they're a contractor or something yet when government gives out money they don't give people a 1099. And my view is that you know I have to file a 1099 miscellaneous on somebody if I give them $600 a year. You know people are getting six hundred dollars a month and so if people saw and were reported with their 1099 to gov they would be able to determine what the median income is from the government which is something that's invisible right now because every county every city every state every federal government program gives money to people and doesn't report it. And as soon as that median level was reported if we had that as a basic tax deduction for every person of every age because they're giving it to families too right then we every time government decided to give more money away they would raise the amount of money in the pie that they could no longer tax but be like

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self-regulating. Hmm okay that's too complicated for me but looking at the comments it looks like people are loving this idea so I'm gonna say that sounds like a good idea to people but it's a little more complicated than I want to talk about today but thank you. Actually I have an example of shadow banning. I explained it in a book which you cannot search for on Amazon by the title but it is st…

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