 You know, one of the differences, one of the interesting differences this article points out, which I think is maybe not a difference anymore. One of the big differences is that when people looked at America and the UK, one of the differences was that the British laborers always resisted change, always resisted automation, always fought it. The Luddites were very popular in Britain. And one of the things that made America unique, one of the things that made America special was the fact that Americans embraced innovation and embraced changed and and and and cheered on the trend towards automation and, you know, relatively speaking, I'm sure there was resistance or some Luddites here, but relative to the UK, it was a small number and and this this makes me sad, right, because that's not what you think today. It's it's what you're seeing the opposite, right. You know, people like Karl Marx played off of this automation and played off of what they claimed was this was all going to create this alienation where they they they claim that all this automation, but factory jobs as well, was going to create this angst this existential angst among people. And you see the same argument being made today. So this is the spiritual crisis capitalism was going to create, because, you know, machines are going to take your jobs and you're going to feel alienated because what are you going to do now that the machine is taking your job. And you as a human being we're going to feel useless and helpless and ignorant and there's nothing you can do and it was going to destroy your self esteem. And it's fascinating, because I was reading this article in Atlantic magazine. I guess it's an article that was written when was this in December after Donald Trump was elected and analyzing kind of the frustration of the people who voted for Donald Trump. And it's exactly the same language. It's the, it's this, you know, American workers have no have no source of meaning they're losing their jobs. They can't get self esteem. Now there's a complication here, which is that over the last few decades we have demonized and made. What would you say made it, you know, unsexy and uncool to have a manual job so everybody needs to be, you know, some kind of program or intellectual in order to deserve self esteem from the work that they do. That's kind of the leftist I think to a large extent responsible for that kind of attitude. They've, you know, they look down on manual labor they do down on people struggling to make a living. Even though they claim to be, you know, the left always claims to be the friend of the working class they've actually become the enemy of the working class that's part of what I think the Trump phenomena or the election of Trump represents. It represents the fact that many Democrats felt that the many Democrats felt the Democratic Party had betrayed them. Many Democrats felt that the Democratic Party had become elitist had become a party that didn't understand working people didn't respect working people didn't care about working people. And I think that's right. I think I think and this is the this is the whole attack on the elites attack on the elites. The elites don't care about working class people who actually work for a living and there's a whole. There's an article in the Atlantic, the spiritual crisis of modern economy that deals with all this stuff and you know about how how alienated people are they're losing their jobs machines are taking over. And what are they going to do and they can't think of what they could do and they're unemployed or they're underemployed or they're partially employed. And they're just frustrated by the world and it's machines and it's Chinese. And they know jobs in their little community and they can't think of what else they could do or they just don't think. And this is the big spiritual crisis. And as I was reading this and I was thinking, oh my God, this is exactly what Mark says in the mid 19th century. This is exactly what kind of existentialists said in the middle of the 20th century. This is the same same same old story of capitalism creating alienation and creating people destroying self esteem and the spirituality and all this garbage. And and yeah, it's all true. If you refuse to be a human being, if you refuse to embrace what it means to be human. If you refuse to do what is necessary for a human being in order to survive. And I think we live in a world where it seems like what people think is necessary for a human being to survive is to complain, to bitch and to demand entitlement. And it used to be said and people understood that what was necessary to survive was to use their mind to use their reason to think, to innovate, to be entrepreneurial at whatever level you can do it. At whatever level you can imagine. But not to sit around and bitch and complain and moan and demand and have your hand out but actually actually get off your butt and go out there and and and find a job and gain a skill and move to another place in the country where that skill is is is valued and where you would get paid for it. There's a, you know, we have now instituted into our American psyche. And I find it hard to believe that I'm saying this about America into American psyche and intellectual laziness and entitlement a demand not to have to move anywhere. Not to have to retrain at all. Not to have to rethink what we do in our life and to have the same job for 50 years and be able to retire on nice benefits and live well forever. And this is why there's such an appeal for this universal basic income because the idea with the universal basic income is will guarantee you an income. So if you don't want to be ambitious, if you don't want to retrain, if you don't want to reskill, we are not going to penalizing you. We're not going to penalize you for all that. You're still going to get a basic universal income. You're still going to get enough money to live well off of. And where does that money come from? Well, it comes from those who are ambitious, those who are innovative, those who are going to create and build something. We're going to take money from them and provide it for you because our expectations of you have now come down to the point where we don't expect you to be able to find another job. We don't expect you to be able to retrain yourself. We don't expect you to be able to be an entrepreneur. We don't expect you to innovate, to do anything, to figure out what people want or to figure out something they don't know that they want and provide it to them. Lack of imagination, but also lack of expectation from human beings. The assumption is, you're all lazy and stupid, right? All right, so none of this is new. Not the threat of the robotics taking people's jobs. Not people's response to it. Not the intellectuals response. If you go back to the intellectuals back then, you know, even some of the industrialists themselves who were panicking and were worried about what they were doing. And just like today, you've got the Elon Musk's of the world and other entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley advocating strongly for universal basic income because they're convinced that they are destroying jobs for people. And that what they are doing, what they're doing, you know, is bad for people somehow and that they need to adopt universal income because otherwise people will really not have jobs. So it really is nothing new under the sun when it comes to the robotics discussion to the robotics debate. It's the same arguments that have always been made. And, you know, I strongly believe that those arguments are going to fail again. And why are they going to fail? They're going to fail because there's no limit to human needs and human wants. You know, there's no limit to human imagination. There's no limit to the kind of things we can do with our minds. There's no limit to the kind of places we can go. You know, imagine the day where we have an entire tourism industry built on going into space. And they could be thousands and thousands of people employed in such an industry. There's no limit to progress. There's no limit to wealth. There's no limit to what can be produced and created. Now, the only limit that there is is my imagination. I can't imagine all the wonderful things that are going to happen. Because, you know, I don't have a good enough imagination for it. But it's just a limit of the human mind, a limit of imagination. Now, there could be a limit. And that limit could be just if we impose by force, if we restrict people's imagination, if we restrict people's use of their own reason, if we restrict people's ability to think, then yes, then we're going to get a sliding back into a dark ages. But as long as people are allowed to think, as long as people are left alone to think, and as long as people can create, can imagine, can produce, then there will be new jobs, there will be new things that we desire. 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 broods.