Brad Gerstner
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Yeah.
As part of the 401k.
This seems to me to be part of the change in the social contract that needs to occur because if we're seeing this exponential progress, we know that the evolution of government and the social contract needs to keep up with it.
Obviously, President Trump and bipartisan group in the House and Senate passed this into law.
So maybe just talk to us a little bit when you think about the pace and magnitude of changes that are coming.
I know you believe it will be a net good, but there are also going to be a bunch of people displaced along the way.
We probably need things like this and other things in order to bring everybody along for the journey.
And aspirational.
Elon taking us to Mars, watching spaceships caught with, you know, chopsticks out in the sky.
This is not only great for the industrializing base of America, it's aspirational for America.
You know, humans are famously skeptical and terrible at understanding compounding systems.
And they're even worse at understanding exponential systems that accelerate with size.
We've talked about exponentials a lot today.
The great futurist Ray Kurzweil said, in the 21st century, we're not going to have 100 years of progress.
We're likely to have 20,000 years of progress.
Right.
Right.
You said earlier, we're so fortunate to be living at this moment and contributing to this moment.
I'm not going to ask you to look out 10 or 20 or 30 years because I think it's so challenging.
But when we think about 2030,