Balaji Srinivasan

It's like...

The thing about it is, is there some truth to it?

There is some truth to it, which is like, if we just had a button we could push that said, hey, enforce the law, restore law and order, you know, like then everything would just work.

And, you know, the other people have stupid ideas and so on and so forth.

What is missed in that is that the people who have those bad ideas, you have to uninstall those bad ideas via persuasion before the button is built.

Like, that is to say, the reason that, like, or another way of putting it is, on the left, there's a lot of people who think you can just push a button to, like, end homelessness, end poverty, just take all of Elon's money.

He's so ungrateful.

He's ungratitude, blah, blah, blah.

Take all the billionaire money.

They owe it to us.

And they just don't do any math, and they don't have any understanding of scarce resources.

Scarce resources in the physical world.

They don't understand scarce resources.

monetarily, right?

They just think it was a cornucopia, a bounteous mother, government is, GOV is GOD, government is God, but the bounteous mother form of God, which can just hand out everything, right?

And the rightists, while more realistic often, is subject to a different but symmetrical, somewhat symmetrical version of this, where they think if the leftist thinks there's infinite money, the rightist thinks there's infinite power.

The rightist does not viscerally understand, oh, I need to work for votes.

I need to get political support.

Just like the leftist doesn't understand scarce resource in the physical world, the rightist doesn't understand scarce resource in the digital world.

That they actually need to get all these people to agree with them that this is a good thing.