Blake Scholl

And the most plausible way I can think of this is imagine China wasn't communist.

Imagine China was just like another state.

okay, would it matter if, you know, would it matter if in the US all the manufacturing moved to California and in Tennessee we do software?

That would be just fine.

You know, law of comparative advantage, some of that stuff should happen.

The problem is, and I think there was a period of time where this was less obvious, of course it's way more obvious now, is that China's not a free country.

And fundamentally I think that not free countries are a threat to free countries.

And so it became very dangerous with that stuff left.

And then we've done, so there's that whole side of it.

And then America, we've done as much, I think we've probably done more damage to ourselves than China did to us.

So we made it really difficult to build here.

So the speed limit we talked about before is probably one of the biggest examples of that.

That's the biggest regulatory own goal in history.

We banned innovation in airplanes.

And then 50 years later, we're surprised we can't competently make them anymore.

Like, well, that shouldn't surprise anybody.

It is.

That's right.

We have found great ways to work with FAA.

We never had a regulatory delay on XB1.