Elon Musk

And they said, no, no, but think of the economy because that's $200 in the economy.

Basically, eating shit would count as a job.

This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.

You can make it directionally better, but ultimately you can't fully fix the system.

So...

It would be accurate to say that even...

Unless you go super draconian, like Genghis Khan level on cutting waste and fraud, which you can't really do in a democratic country, an aspirationally democratic country, then there's no way to solve the debt crisis.

So we've got national debt that's just insane where the debt payments, the interest payments on the debt exceed our entire military budget.

I mean, that was one of the wake-up calls for me.

I was like, wait a second.

The interest on national debt is bigger than the entire military budget and growing?

This is crazy.

So...

So even if you implement all these savings, you're only delaying the day of reckoning for when America goes bankrupt.

Unless you go full Genghis Khan, which you can't really do.

So...

So I came to the conclusion that the only way to get us out of the debt crisis and to prevent America from going bankrupt is AI and robotics.

So we need to grow the economy at a rate that allows us to pay off our debt.

And I guess people just generally don't appreciate the degree to which the government overspending is a problem.

But even like the Social Security website, this is under the Biden administration.