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before. In other words I don't know that President Trump is departing from the facts in a bigger way than he ever has before. I don't know. Maybe we should keep an eye on it but they're all at that age. Biden, Bernie less so, Warren but Trump, well I think we have to look at that. I feel like that's a fair thing to look at. You know what I want to suggest? This idea. If you're running for preside…

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ns of millions of dollars in revenue so it's a serious company with serious revenue. They've been at it several years and the quality of the courses is really high because for an obvious reason.

They just announced that one of their creators, in other words one person who might have created one class content, that made five hundred and fifty thousand dollars in one day. Let that sink in. There was one creator who made one class, I don't even know what the topic was doesn't matter, made one topic class. They made over half a million dollars in one day. One day.

Now when you hear that how many people heard that and said to themselves uh I think maybe I'll try making a class. But it's not easy you know. It's not like you can just say I think I'll put a PowerPoint together because they've raised the bar about what would look like a proper class partly because you use their tools so it sort of guarantees you have a good format and stuff. But once you reach a point where you can make that much money by selling content online what is the big change? The big change is who it attracts. Because Hollywood is going to start noticing. If I said to you hey guys I'm gonna start an online school and you can add content to it you'd say hey that's great I could make you maybe a few thousand dollars and I would attract people like you know you and people like me who could put together a little class with a PowerPoint thing and we try to sell for a few hundred or a few thousand dollars but that wouldn't be a change the world kind of a situation.

But suddenly you hear that one creator made half a million dollars in one day. Now I'm sure that that creator put a lot of work, probably a lot of money into creating that class content. It probably was quite impressive. I don't think it's PowerPoint exactly but it's some kind of presentation format. And suddenly don't you think people in Hollywood just said ah what are you telling me that I could pull together a team? I get a content person, the presenter, somebody to do the graphics and we'll really just kill this thing. We'll figure out what's the most valuable class that people would buy and we'll make some content and we'll make a half a million dollars in a day. Because that's what's going to happen. You're right on the cusp of the big teams, the corporate entities saying oh this is where the money is. I'm gonna stop making movies. I'm gonna start making class content.

And the next thing you need which I think will come naturally is a credit accreditation. I believe that you'll see something like Teachable or some other company in that business who eventually puts together enough classes that they can create a college major. The first major I'd like to see is something I would call life strategy. I've said this before but it's worth reiterating. I would like to see the federal government create a set of requirements for types of classes that you could take online and you would learn life strategies. Now life strategies would be everything from you'd learn about persuasion, public speaking, how to be a good communicator, how to write well, maybe you'd learn Spanish if you live in California, so maybe you'd learn how to program a website etc. So I'm talking about skills that you could really use in the workplace but then that they affect your life as well. So if somebody went and got a major in life strategies they would be fairly qualified for a lot of different jobs that then they would have to be trained for specifically but that's the current situation.

So I would like to see the federal government accredit a series of classes that they call a life major or life strategies major and make that a thing so that you could go to college for a few hundred dollars by just downloading content. That's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. So look for that.

All right that's all I got. It's Sunday. It's a holiday and you want to go do other things. I know you do. So let's go do other things. Somebody says why does the government need to be involved? That's a fair question. So I don't know enough about this topic but who is it who does accreditation for colleges? So the problem is you need some entity that everybody trusts at least trust enough. You know nobody trusts the government entirely but trust enough to say that if the government says anybody who takes this set of courses gets a BA in life strategy that would probably be enough that corporations would say all right well you've gotten a BA in life strategy. The federal government said that's a thing and I'm looking at the courses and hell yes I would like to hire somebody who had studied this set of courses because they're gonna be pretty powerful.

So all right we'll get rid of this troll. Goodbye troll. Somebody says I don't think accrediting organizations are a government strategy. You might be right but whoever does the accreditation if they don't want to do it the federal government could. All right there's nothing stopping them from doing it. They could certainly do it if they wanted to and indeed if the government doesn't want to do it I would do it. So if somebody wanted to create an online set of courses that they wanted to call life strategy I would be willing to endorse it if it were a bag of classes I thought were good. Yeah Warren Buffett could endorse a set of classes. Bill Gates could endorse a set of classes. Elon Musk, wouldn't you take, if Elon Musk said I would hire somebody who took this set of courses wouldn't you take that seriously? Now of course i

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n the technical world he needs people who are engineers and have technical courses but even Tesla must be hiring a lot of people for non-technical jobs. If Elon Musk said anybody who takes this set of courses we will take seriously at Tesla that would mean a lot. That would mean a lot. All right that's all I got for now and I will talk to you tomorrow.

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