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his big, you know the 100 million for carbon capture, you should take that really seriously. I feel as if you're seeing some kind of a political shift that I like a lot. And it goes like this. Most of our future problems are going to be technology related. In other words you'd have to understand the technology in order to make the right decision. So they're technology related and they're going to…
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For example you saw that Amazon, let's say Jeff Bezos it must have been behind it, decided to offer to help with the vaccination rollout. Likewise some other big corporations are helping as well. So if people like Bezos and Elon Musk and Gates are just saying well we're gonna have to solve this ourselves, literally I guess I'll have to do this myself. That's how a Gates or Elon can think of these things because they have the ability to do that. They can actually solve problems themselves.
So maybe we're heading toward a world where our billionaire class who I'll call the super capables, not the ones who inherited but the ones who made a billion do
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llars, they are super capable. And if they start asserting themselves because they need to, because with great power comes great responsibility, this might be the way we solve stuff. Because we're going to have to innovate our way out of all of our problems. The only way we protect ourselves against China is to out-innovate. The only way we protect ourselves against losing space is to out-innovate…
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