Daniel Priestley

Meritocracy doesn't mean that everyone ends up with the same result. What I'm trying to... Here's what I'm trying to achieve.

I'm trying to achieve the people who have ambition, who can go for it, are incentivised to do it and incentivised to build jobs and build companies... And what about the ones that just want to work hard and have a good family and take care of them and have a home and be able to turn the heating on and be able to have financial security? They need to work for a business, don't they?

I'm trying to achieve the people who have ambition, who can go for it, are incentivised to do it and incentivised to build jobs and build companies... And what about the ones that just want to work hard and have a good family and take care of them and have a home and be able to turn the heating on and be able to have financial security? They need to work for a business, don't they?

Yeah, pardon? They need to work for you? They need to work for a business, some business, right? If someone doesn't create that business, then where do they work for? By the way, we now have 11% of working age people are now declared too sick to work, right? We have a huge problem in the UK. We also have 25% of people who are working age don't work. It's one in seven men don't work at all.

Yeah, pardon? They need to work for you? They need to work for a business, some business, right? If someone doesn't create that business, then where do they work for? By the way, we now have 11% of working age people are now declared too sick to work, right? We have a huge problem in the UK. We also have 25% of people who are working age don't work. It's one in seven men don't work at all.

Do you think they're lazy, Dan? I think the system is collapsing. Do you think the average British American is lazy? What I think is happening is that the technology companies are totally transforming and disrupting everything. And what happened is around the post-war era we had good jobs, we had you could work in a local thing.

Do you think they're lazy, Dan? I think the system is collapsing. Do you think the average British American is lazy? What I think is happening is that the technology companies are totally transforming and disrupting everything. And what happened is around the post-war era we had good jobs, we had you could work in a local thing.

What's happening now is that jobs are going to the Philippines, they're going to technology does three things. It makes jobs more simple, which makes them replaceable. It makes jobs global, where you can move them to anywhere else. And then ultimately it automates the job altogether and gets rid of it through code and software.

What's happening now is that jobs are going to the Philippines, they're going to technology does three things. It makes jobs more simple, which makes them replaceable. It makes jobs global, where you can move them to anywhere else. And then ultimately it automates the job altogether and gets rid of it through code and software.

And what's really going on in the last, especially five years since the pandemic, is technology has decimated the existing systems that we all relied upon when we grew up. And when I say the education system isn't really working, it's still pretending that there are office jobs available for people when they graduate.

And what's really going on in the last, especially five years since the pandemic, is technology has decimated the existing systems that we all relied upon when we grew up. And when I say the education system isn't really working, it's still pretending that there are office jobs available for people when they graduate.

And it's still pretending that there's like 1950s scenarios available when actually my kids are going to be disrupted by AI. Everyone's kids are going to be disrupted by AI. You know, these sorts of things are the things that really we also need to be talking about.

And it's still pretending that there's like 1950s scenarios available when actually my kids are going to be disrupted by AI. Everyone's kids are going to be disrupted by AI. You know, these sorts of things are the things that really we also need to be talking about.

Well, I've built from scratch several times because I got disrupted several times. So I've had to start with nothing several times and build. But I'm a certain type of person, right?

Well, I've built from scratch several times because I got disrupted several times. So I've had to start with nothing several times and build. But I'm a certain type of person, right?

And also having access to a great market. Like having access to a free market is a big thing. I was born in Australia and I moved to London at the peak of London's economic freedom.

And also having access to a great market. Like having access to a free market is a big thing. I was born in Australia and I moved to London at the peak of London's economic freedom.

Well, I think personal agency is broadly applicable. Yes, I agree. I got this friend of mine who woke up one day, he went out clubbing, went out to a nightclub, felt sick, collapsed, woke up and they'd chopped off all four limbs, right? So he... quadruple amputee. He was 19 years old. So he wakes up in bed and he basically says, I'm a quadruple amputee.

Well, I think personal agency is broadly applicable. Yes, I agree. I got this friend of mine who woke up one day, he went out clubbing, went out to a nightclub, felt sick, collapsed, woke up and they'd chopped off all four limbs, right? So he... quadruple amputee. He was 19 years old. So he wakes up in bed and he basically says, I'm a quadruple amputee.

I was fine 48 hours ago and now I'm a quadruple amputee. And he decides to make this decision in the hospital room that this is going to be the best thing that ever happened to him. And he makes that decision.