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e somebody actually could have died from that. It's hard to know exactly what caused what in these situations. But if you were looking at it overall you know there's no doubt there were individual bad situations. But if you were to look at it overall it kind of looks like we got it done. Maybe it's still too early but it's starting to look like Team Human and Team America specifically, it's kind o…
← Previous segment →tter is the brain of civilization. And because it exists all the best ideas could sort of find the right place and get filtered in a way that we could have never done before prior to Twitter.
So if you look at everything from our political systems even our financial systems, the fact that we have such a robust banking system and that Mnuchin could go in there and they had a full toolbox. Mnuchin had a full toolbox. What tool did Mnuchin want to use that was not available to him? Not really. You know maybe you can think of one but I can't. Because the economy of the United States was robust. Mnuchin goes in there and says all right it's an emergency. I'm gonna push the buttons for emergencies and all the buttons are there. They're all there because we weren't already in a depression. Because we had good systems.
So I would say that we're probably, you know it's human nature that we beat ourselves up for our mistakes and you don't give yourself enough credit for the things you do well. But I think where we're heading with this if we do get past the peak without running out of stuff and I'm optimistic now, I think we really have to pat ourselves on the back. And I'm talking about humanity in general because there are a whole bunch
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of systems that really delivered. That they adapted. That the systems themselves were almost like living creatures because none of the systems were on day one adapted to the task. But you know let's just take one example. Twitter is not adapted to the task on day one but it takes 10 seconds for a hashtag to appear and suddenly Twitter is morphing into exactly the tool for this disease. It's almos…
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