Duncan Trussell

Here's how I think if I was going to make the argument, which I agree with you on meritocracy in the sense that.

You know, that's the – it's the ecosystem we live in as comedians.

It's the – I think you could say if we disrupted the meritocracy in nature, then it would – God, it would fuck up almost every biome.

And the –

So but I would say, what about like your body has a meritocracy?

Your body has a meritocracy.

The white blood cells in your body, when they're functioning, they get rid of parts of your body that are fucked up little genetic patterns.

They have to.

You know, if your body wasn't running as a perfectly harmonized, I guess, you know what?

Maybe the body's communist now that I think about it.

You know what?

I think I'm wrong.

I don't think our bodies are a meritocracy, actually.

I think they're more of a symphony than a meritocracy.

But then if you want to go to a good symphony, you want everyone playing in the symphony to be the best.

That's tax tax.

That's taxation.

That's like redistribution of wealth via taxation.

But it's not if it's your employees.

Well, there's profit sharing models that some people use.