Andrew Heaton

We'd become far more prosperous.

Yeah.

As in like romantic trysts or just like politics in general?

Great question, Tim.

I actually wrote a book on this called Tribalism is Dumb.

I'll be happy to give you a copy of it when we leave.

That is a salient question.

That's something that has been going on in the United States now for 20 or 30 years.

It's been going on in other countries as well.

It's been going on in Europe.

The countries that have a pre-distributist mentality.

economic model which is kind of what you're advocating for of let's keep wages higher at the at the base floor through higher minimum wage things like that they're going through the same thing as well so i would infer that that's not an economic advocate for a minimum wage um forgive me i don't want to put words in your mouth but it's market competition within our borders and an expected standard of living for an american so we have eliminated that when i say pre-distributivist what i mean is

trying to force corporations on the front end to pay more through some method or stopping competition.

Yeah, cultural enforcement.

Rather than redistribution, right?

So like France and Germany and Spain have predistributed models, which are also going through these things.

So I would infer that it's not primarily economic.

I think it's largely technological.

I think the period that we're living in is probably more similar to— Largely agree.

Yeah.