Gary Stevenson

One thousand dollars every single month in your pocket.

And obviously, as I've said, like you don't need to dig far into it before you realize that this is you know, this is not just not taxing anyone is is not a

really at all a feasible economic strategy but you know we live in a world where people for better or worse are a little bit obsessed with money we live in in a society which is obsessed with money we live in an economy where a lot of people are struggling for money and if this guy turns around and says look these guys are trying to tax me but we have an alternative which is to give every single one of you one thousand dollars a month

it's gonna be like potentially quite persuasive right and when I saw it like it shouldn't be funny because it's like a really serious issue and you know my whole channel is about this but it is quite what what made me laugh about this is it immediately reminded me of like this is how you distract

like a child or a baby who is doing something that you don't like.

You say to them, hey, look, do you want to use the iPad?

Do you want to get some ice cream?

You just switch the conversation immediately away from something you don't want the child to do.

Don't text me.

And you say, oh, but if you do what I want, I'll give you $1,000.

dollars a month, you know, and of course Jeff Bezos knows like he's probably not gonna get this policy that that he's he's demanding but it doesn't matter because all he's trying to do is just distract you away from the thing that he doesn't want you to talk about by giving you this like a luring thing here like about who doesn't want a thousand dollars a month that would be like fantastic basically and it takes advantage of like a lack of basically economics understanding

And I think this is the reason why I try so hard to like create a public that just has a basic understanding of basic economic ideas.

You know, I've done videos in the last couple of years, I did one saying like forget about money.

And the big idea for the forget about money video was

Forget about money because money is confusing and the government can print money and it can do a lot of things.

But what the government can't print is resources.

And any given amount of time, there's a certain amount of resources.

There's a certain amount of housing, a certain amount of energy, a certain amount of raw materials, a certain amount of transport, a certain number of cars.

And these will be distributed in a certain way.

And