James Talarico

Well, because billionaires, it's a chosen identity, unlike a lot of identities.

If I said the problem was Christians or Jews or people of color or gay people, that's a problem.

But if I'm pointing out an identity that someone actively chooses and very much could not be, to me, that is a fundamental distinction.

And again, I think the result of the vision that I'm articulating is gonna be good for those billionaires or maybe former billionaires.

What does it mean to be a good billionaire?

Franklin Roosevelt, Bobby Kennedy were trust fund babies.

They were some of the wealthiest people in the country.

And they used their wealth and their power

to help other people, particularly working people, people that struggle to get by, and not just through philanthropy and through charity, but through changes in the structure of the economy itself.

You know, I was the co-author of a bill that passed in Texas that banned cell phones in our public schools, particularly the smartphones.

I'm also interested in some of the federal ideas about...

the liability of these companies and a regulatory framework.

I'm interested in all that.

I'm also interested in how you allow for economic solutions, how you encourage the development of more humane platforms that I think could succeed.

I really do.

I think we're going to look back 100 years and we're going to see these as

kind of the rudimentary first versions of these platforms, kind of like we see child labor and things like that.

And we're like, you know, so glad we progressed beyond that.

These feel so much better.

But here's what I would just say.