Jim Lebenthal
speaker
650 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Jim Lebenthal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He says, go buy everything you can right now in the stock market.
And the clerk looks at him amazed.
What are you talking about?
We're about to have the world end.
He says, look, one of two outcomes.
Either it's a rumor, in which case we're getting everything on the cheap right now, or the world's going to come to an end and it doesn't matter.
A little bit witty, okay, but here's the real message.
How many times have each of us heard in our lives that the world is ending, that tariffs are gonna undo the world order, the world trade order, that America is losing its standing in the world?
I'm not being political here, I'm just saying, asking you, how many times have you heard that?
Back in 2022, Russia invades Ukraine and all the talk about nuclear war and World War III.
For the number of times that we have all heard the world is going to end, do you know how many times it's ended?
Exactly zero.
So odds are you shouldn't believe it when you hear that.
I'm with you on the good outcome, both generally and specific to AI.
I also want to point out that the corollary to what you described is this nostalgia for times past
that tends to idealize what really was.
And I like to read Walt Whitman, and I absolutely love the Hudson River School of Painting, which is mid-19th century landscapes.
I find it just gorgeous.
But here's the truth.
As much as I might say, well, I wish I were back there myself, I'd have to worry about dying from smallpox or getting mauled by a bear, things that I just don't have to worry about today because technology has advanced.
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