Erik Bethel

Yeah, I mean, it's pretty bad.

Holy shit, I didn't realize it.

And so, you know, all part of the social credit score.

Spitting, saying something.

Tell them about the social credit score.

Isn't there a Black Mirror episode on this?

I'm trying to remember.

But yeah, it's real.

It's a real version of this, where every facet of your life is monitored and tracked.

I think that's a really good, really good point.

I mean, there's a narrative battle going on, right?

Our narrative is that the way to govern society is through individual agency, freedom, free markets, where it's the battle of ideas that wins.

So I was flying into Memphis last night, and you can see that the Memphis airport, you've got people singing songs.

And I thought to myself, Memphis is competing with, to some degree, with Austin.

Austin is competing with Miami.

And so cities compete with each other for talent, for companies.

Similarly,

corporations compete with each other, ideas compete with each other, and the best ideas rise to the surface.

And that's our idea, whether it's free markets, individual agency,

Democracy.