Jeremy Kauffman

What I call the scariest graph in the world

is to look at the percentage of GDP that is controlled by governments, not just in America, but across Europe.

And it's a line that just goes nothing but up for 120 straight years.

And so how do we get out of this?

We managed to stay afloat, quite frankly, thankfully, to entrepreneurs and innovative people that continue to make us more productive.

And so I will say, yeah, my life is nonetheless better.

Despite this increasing parasite load of my government, my life is better than it was in the past.

So I'm not here, you know, dooming about it.

But this doesn't seem sustainable over time, you know, unless we're expecting just infinite productivity gains to always save us.

And so something new has to come about.

It's inevitable.

The pressure and the incentive to create something new is higher than it ever is before.

This is also what I'm working on.

I don't know how much you want to get into on the show, but it's actually a big part of what I'm working on with with the Free State Party, which is my new which has been my new my new venture.

And if we're talking about saving America, you know, it's got to be centering around someone who can actually solve these problems.

problems which as much as i would like to happen in this purely voluntary way i think if you're talking about saving america you need someone with like a little bit more of like an energy like a malay or even a bukali who i want to be very clear is not a libertarian in many ways but there has to be someone who's willing to uh you know look i trump disappoints me in this area i wish he was stronger he doesn't do enough uh you know but but we we are in a system that is so against us

That is so weighted against us where it's not it's not just the government, but it's like it's all of the bureaucracies.

It's all the universities.

It's all of these institutions.

And this is, again, also why, despite not liking a lot of what Trump does, I'm not eager to condemn is because he's like the first thing I've seen in my life.