00:00:00.000I don't want rich people to control the government any more than anyone else.
00:00:03.000But the problem isn't who controls the government.
00:00:06.000The problem is the nature of government power itself.
00:00:08.000The reason Bernie Sanders is a leech on the ass of American society is because Bernie's fix for wealth concentration is to put all of the power in the hands of Bernie Sanders.
00:00:18.000But as always, the most fruitful path in politics is to channel your envy toward a convenient scapegoat.
00:00:23.000President Trump's most populist tendencies are nothing compared to the grievance culture that has eaten the Democratic Party whole.
00:00:28.000They've never met a seizure of wealth or property they did not like.
00:00:31.000They say, all right, we're not concerned.
00:00:33.000We know capitalism is fine, free markets are good, but what we are really concerned with is centralization of wealth, because with centralization of wealth comes outsized political power, right?
00:00:42.000This is Bernie's backup envy argument.
00:00:46.000One is rich people are bad, they're just terrible, they become evil.
00:00:50.000And second is the rich people are stealing from the poor people.
00:00:52.000And then, once you debunk both of those, because they're stupid, he gets to the third argument the rich people are going to take over the government.
00:00:58.000The rich people have an outsized impact on regulation and legal.
00:01:03.000Okay, so some people are making the argument that Elon being a trillionaire will be dangerous because then he'll control the government.
00:01:10.000So we should point out at this point that America has never been more evenly divided politically.
00:01:15.000That Democrats, who Elon does not support, are favored to take Congress and perhaps even the Senate.
00:01:20.000That Elon has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on politics, but so have the Soros family and Tom Steyer and the public sector unions.
00:01:27.000So here's my thing I also don't want rich people controlling the government.
00:01:31.000But mainly, I don't want the government controlling my life.
00:01:35.000It turns out that the problem. isn't which rich person controls the government.
00:01:39.000The problem is the government power in the first place.
00:01:44.000In fact, some people have thought of this in the past.
00:01:46.000What if, thought experiment, what if we had constructed a system of checks and balances designed precisely to avoid capture of our legal and regulatory system by any one player by say, I don't know, disseminating power among multiple branches and multiple levels of government and restricting the powers of the government to a list of delegated powers.
00:02:10.000And then it turns out that the people most concerned with wealth concentration decided that to target wealth concentration, they would destroy the checks and balances and turn the American government into a regulatory top down centralized state.
00:02:37.000The answer is we need to preserve the things that make America awesome.
00:02:42.000The things that bring people like Elon Musk to the United States, or say Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, or say the adoptive father of Jeff Bezos, who came from Cuba in 1962.
00:02:54.000It turns out that what makes America awesome is the same thing that has always made America awesome private property rights and equal rights before the law, and limited government powers.
00:04:09.000But the most fruitful path in politics is to channel envy toward the idea that actually people who have earned wealth, people who have created companies, who have innovated, they don't deserve it.
00:04:23.000And what we really need is for those people to, quote unquote, give back.
00:05:08.000You go back to that Kimmel clip at the top.
00:05:09.000He says, You know, Elon, with all that money, he could buy every team in the MLB and every team in the NBA and every football team and all the rest of it.
00:05:18.000And then he would have to have a willing seller, right?
00:05:22.000Somebody would have to be on the other side of that transaction.
00:05:26.000The companies founded by people like Bill Gates, by people like Elon Musk, will do far more for humanity than any amount of charity they plan to give because they employ people, because they create new products and services that make people's lives better.
00:05:39.000But the language of they have to give back to the public, as though when you engage in the robust free market, you are somehow taking from the public wheel.
00:06:21.000And I'm going to have meetings with the top 12 or 15 executives very shortly.
00:06:28.000And we're talking about giving back something to the public.
00:06:32.000And if we do that, the public will become very rich, the people in our country, because that's the kind of money we're talking about.
00:06:40.000And I think they'll do that, and I think it'll make it very popular.
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00:07:59.000But if you think that you're going to buy your way out of envy by giving people money, that is not the way envy works.
00:08:05.000In fact, it turns out that very often the recipients of largesse are angrier about receiving the largesse.
00:08:10.000They're angrier at the people who gave it to them than they would be otherwise.
00:08:14.000By the way, what Trump is saying there is mild compared to all of the stuff that's being preached by the far left, like Ro Khanna, the congressman from California, who is increasingly unhinged.
00:08:22.000Here he was with Ajaha Ali talking about his plans were Democrats to take back power.
00:08:29.000This is what the agenda should be in 2028.
00:08:32.000We should be for calling it a Dred Scott court and having Supreme Court term limits and expanding the court from 9 to 13.
00:08:39.000We should be for abolishing ICE and replacing it with an immigration enforcement office that actually follows human rights and that focuses on sex trafficking, child trafficking, drug offenders, not conducting raids in places like Minneapolis, going after undocumented immigrants or working and paying taxes.
00:09:00.000We should be for A billionaire's tax, a tax on billionaires.
00:09:05.000Again, the goal of the billionaire tax would not be to actually make America's economy more robust.
00:09:13.000And of course, Chan Kueger, who has never met a seizure of wealth that he does not like, put out a tweet saying, I want to be the first to say it.
00:09:20.000I think there's a chance Ro Khanna saves the country.
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