Ed Elson

I think it's something that we need.

We need more mind exercise because we are getting stupider.

That's right.

And this is, by the way, this is the trouble with being a politician is you must, I mean, ideally we can elect people who have had more real world experience and ideally those are the people who would succeed.

But the politician's job is to be the quote unquote expert on everything and then find who the enemies are and then blame the enemies and then wag the finger and point the finger.

And that's the job of the politician.

But I mean, to your point,

Something that I've been speaking with, I was speaking with Representative Seth Moulton, who's a veteran, he's a representative of Massachusetts running for Senator, and one of his viewpoints, I don't know if he's said this publicly at this point, I think it's fine that I'm saying this, but we've been talking about the idea of national service, not just in terms of you go and enlist in the military.

It would be perhaps good for young people and good for our generation if there was an expectation that when you graduate high school or when you graduate college, for two years, you're going to go out there and do something that is legitimately productive for America.

You're going to go work as a mechanic and figure out how to build things.

in certain areas.

You're going to go work as, I mean, maybe a teacher.

You're going to go in and provide some sort of public service and you're going to get the skills of understanding this is actually how the real world works.

This is how capitalism works.

This is how value is created.

This is how people get paid.

And

I mean, I don't love the idea of we're going to mandate it.

It feels a little bit too stringent.

But I do think that there's something to that.