 Move on with you guys, Matt. OK, so the county supervisors where I live, when they have an ordinance up for consideration, there's this thing called a board letter that kind of tells you about it. And there's always been a row on it at the beginning. There's a section. It's called Business Impact Statement. And they've never been very thoughtful in their analysis of that, like when the county passed our eviction ban, the Business Impact Statement was, this ordinance will help tenants and families. And that was the Business Impact Statement. It had nothing to do really with business. But they've recently added a new paragraph to every ordinance called the Equity Impact Statement. And these answers are often a paragraph or a page long, and there's someone putting a lot of effort into when they write this. In my local newspaper, every page has an article that works equity and somehow every press release from our politicians is always everything's through the lens of equity. And maybe I'm defining it wrong, but it's close to the best definition I can say. When I hear equity, that means bringing equal outcomes. We're saying it's not equal opportunity. It's equal pushing for equal outcomes. And equal outcomes, people having the same amount of stuff, that's pretty much the point of communism. The main feature of communism is everyone has the same amount of stuff. So everyone is openly advocating for equity, but none of these people would say self-identify as a communist. But I feel like they're pushing for the same thing. What am I missing here? Well, what you're missing is that they don't take the concept seriously, right? People are saying equity, they don't know what it means. They have no clue what it means. They have a vague notion that equity is the word that they're supposed to say right now if they believe in fairness, if they believe in justice. Ask them what fairness and justice means. They don't really know. They certainly don't think it means communism. They certainly don't think it means equality of outcome. If they did, they would reject it if it was put in stock terms. So there are people out there who are clearly communists or I don't know communists, but they're egalitarianism. They're worse than communists, in my view. The egalitarians, they're really, really bad guys with one equality of outcome. The people out there, usually intellectuals, usually on the left, usually at universities, they don't actually work for a living. They don't actually participate in life. There's somewhere in the intellectual stratosphere. There's somewhere in the intellectual stratosphere. But they said, in terms of debate, so they know what equity means, but they'll never admit it. But they make it so that equity is the word you have to say if you're gonna be cool, if you're gonna be good, if you're gonna be just, if you're gonna be acceptable to in society, right? Whatever that means. And so everybody else starts using equity. They don't know what it means. It's just the right thing to say. And it kind of vaguely means fairness and it kind of vaguely means not making a lot of money, but of course I am gonna make a lot of money. I don't care, I'm just gonna put this in a statement. Nobody cared. That's how it spreads to society, becomes just a term that everybody uses. But of course it has a meaning that the intellectuals give it and they're gonna use it against you over and over again when they raise your taxes. It's just getting in the name of equity and you agree that equity is a good thing. You use it in your own thing. And that's how they slowly erode your freedoms and erode your confidence in what you're doing. Just looking for a, let me just, one second. You know, here's just a website says equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources opportunities. All right, what does that even mean? Who given by whom? Resources, you're given resources. Who gives you those resources? It's a BS definition, but anyway. Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances that and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome. It says equal outcome, right? Yeah, but nobody actually holds that in terms of what that means other than, I guess the person who wrote this article, right? So if you've got a lot, you get a little, your opportunity set is reduced. If you have a little, you get a lot. Your opportunity set is increased in order to achieve equality of outcome. Very interesting. What's that? It just makes me cringe and it's everywhere, you know, in these, all the local publications and it's just like, it's just presented as a no-brainer that if you don't support equity, you're just a horrible person and that's like not contested at all. And it's not what equity actually means. Equity means fairness, which means the exact opposite of that. I mean, I like the word equity. I own equity in stocks. It means, you know, it means, it doesn't mean what they've made it into meaning. They lost inequality, they lost unfairness, so now they're trying with their equity. Here's a quote from Paula Dresel from the, and you can't believe, you know, the names of these institutes just unbelievable. She works for the Race Matters Institute, which three years ago, I would have assumed it was a white supremacist organization. And now I know as to be an anti-racist organization, Race Matters Institute. And this is the rule. The route to achieving equity will not be accomplished through treating everybody equally. It will be achieved by treating everyone justly according to their circumstances. Now, there's a sense in which I agree, but I have a sense that we completely disagree on what justly means. And that's the point. Equity just means treating people justly. Sounds good. Count me in. Yeah, exactly. That's what you mean. But that's reliance on how do we, us having a common definition of what justice is. And then there's not, you know, agreement on that. Yeah, and this is from a website on public health from George Washington University. All right, I just saved the article. I'll do a show on that. I'll do a show on equity versus equality. All right, that'll be fun. Right. Thanks, Matt. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism, and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist brought. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes, that should be at least 100. 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