ation. No joke. That's a serious conversation by serious people that he may want to destroy civilization. That's their biggest donor. Now I don't know that he wants to destroy civilization but it's a serious question. That's pretty scary. Second biggest donor was Sam Bankman-Fried, a con man basically. So those are their two biggest donors. So if you're wondering hey why is everything fucked up, well maybe it's because the two biggest donors, one seems to be an evil genius crook and the other one seems to be a demented evil genius billionaire. Maybe if you follow the money it gets you to exactly where we are, which is a completely corrupted government that's of no use to the people.

All right, some new science in the category of you should have just asked Scott. You would have saved some time. Turns out two separate studies, one on gratitude and one on empathy. So I guess empathy could reduce depression. That's what one study says. So thinking about other people and caring about them could make you less depressed. Do you know who else knew that? I did. Didn't you all know that? I thought it was sort of obvious. I've always, in fact I may have told you this in the past. Before I guess all of my Dilbert career, when I was getting more than I needed for myself, whenever I had a bad day I would just randomly do something awesomely good for somebody else and I always cheered up. 100% of the time it worked. I just pick somebody and say you know what, today's your lucky day, and just made somebody happy like in some substantial way. And oh my god it feels good. Yeah. So they could have saved a lot of money in this study. Just ask me. I've been doing it for years. It works every time. And I've recommended it to people and when they try it, it works every time, right? You really didn't need to study that.

Here's another one. Gratitude can make you healthier. Again, ask me. I could have told you that. In fact most self-help gurus could have told you that. That gratitude is a very healthy mindset. It's going to make everything work better and it does. So what do gratitude and empathy have in common? Gratitude and empathy, it's about getting you out of your own head and making you think about the well-being of other people and the value they have in your life, the gratitude part. So getting out of your own head is the trick for not being depressed.

Now why is there a gigantic mental health problem in the United States at the moment? Well I would say again you don't need to do a big expensive study. Let me explain it to you. It's your screens. When I was a child human beings were human beings and if I watched television, you know