Bernie Sanders
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That's a reasonable amount of money?
You know, I mean, it's still, it's not, it's going to be real difficult to live off of 17 bucks an hour.
But at least, that's right.
At least you can get a sandwich in under two hours worth of work.
Well, there's a lot of factors.
First of all, there are a lot of people that are very unhealthy, physically unhealthy.
I think metabolic health is a gigantic issue in this country.
There's a lot of people in this country that feel completely disenfranchised, and so they turn inward.
And then technology invites them to do that.
You get online and you spend your time staring at a screen, having communications with people, arguing on Twitter all day, changing the flag in your bio from Ukraine to Palestine, and now you've got an Iranian flag.
You're just in a constant state of anxiety and chaos.
You're dealing with the entire problem, the problems of the entire world.
You're dealing with 8 billion people's worth of problems every day.
I think that's unsustainable.
And that's also a function of technology because this interaction that we have is unprecedented.
The interaction with the news, with each other, all this stuff we're not designed to handle.
And it gives you massive anxiety, particularly for young people.
Particularly, Jonathan Haidt's written about this with young girls who have the biggest problem with social media, comparing themselves to other people, massive increase in self-harm, suicide, suicidal ideology, depression, anxiety, all this stuff accentuated by technology and our unchecked use of it.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
Not to hurt human life.