John Reeves
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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And I think that the next kinds of wave, whether it's AI or those other kinds of innovations, whether that it's green energy or those kinds of a thing, that's going to continue to juice our economy.
That is a challenge. On my walk here, well, I didn't walk here, but I saw a Waymo. A Waymo drove by me and I'm like, wait a minute, there's no one in there. No one in there. There was no one in that car. Did you see the traffic jam? Yeah, that's the first time I've ever seen... a car and had literally no human was in that vehicle. And I was like, wow.
Yeah. Like a lot of that came from Pittsburgh, too. And you would see those kinds of cars, but it always had a human in there. But that was the first time I saw like a robot car driving around in Austin. And yes, that creates there's a lot of dislocation that's possible.
Yeah, well, I mean, universal guaranteed income, I'm not sure. I don't know, because you're going to have to have a lot of resources to provide a lot of that. And that creates all kinds of other issues and dynamic. But I'm not afraid of technology. But it's also acknowledging that there are going to be kinds of changes in those things.
And I'm a big believer in technology takes us into a more productive kinds of economy. And they're going to help solve some of the challenges that we have in our society for those kinds of things. But I think we have to find the perfect balance that we don't stifle innovation. But we also have to remember that there are going to be people that might be left behind or they're going to struggle.
I mean, hey, I was mayor for 13 days and I live in a community that was left behind by some of those things. And now the steel workers, the steel workers. I live across the street from the steel mill. And then it was announced that Nippon was buying U.S. steel. And basically all those steel workers, they were done.
You know, they used euphemisms saying, well, we're going to honor current labor deals. But that's a euphemism saying as soon as that's up, you're done. Right. And then that's going to be, you know. And if you think it's going to be easy for those men and women to pull down six figures or those kinds of an income, it's like how insensitive to say, well, hey, learn coding or whatever.
It's like, well, hey, it's not –
Yeah, exactly. That's how quickly things change. It's basically kind of like a fuck you, like good luck kind of thing.
Yeah, well, but they never even told us that they were going to sell that. And then a staffer sent me a picture on CNN saying that they're selling UST. I'm like, fuck that. And so I just went up on my roof and I had a video saying, hey, I promise I'm going to do anything I can to jam that up. And it's like, that's what we did. And we worked with the White House.
And then suddenly all of that got jammed up. And suddenly, I'm so surprised, wink on wink, but Nippon found... extra billions of dollars to make the kinds of upgrades to secure a future for those facilities in the Mon Valley. And to me, it's about following the union way of life. You know, to me, steel is national security. And to me,
If you turn your back on the working union families, I mean, it's like those are really hard to replace those things. And so for me, two things are true at the same time. You know, our economy has evolved. But when we have an opportunity to stand for the union way of life and we can't ever just – outsource our steel industry like that. I refuse to do that.
And that's why we're in that situation right now, that it's like, hey, it's like that's what's true about some of these industries.
I agree. And that's why Congress came together and President Biden led the whole chips legislation. And it's like we've got to make shit in America. And it's like, of course, the future is in those kinds of industries and those things. So we have to protect the American economy for that thing. And that's why that's a bipartisan kinds of a push for that.
And COVID, that relieved a lot of vulnerabilities. It's like where a lot of these things come from. But going forward on that, it's like we can never just surrender that American manufacturing. We can't assume and we can't allow that to turn completely outsourced.
Yeah, well, I mean, let's also talk about rare earth stuff. The Chinese have strategically just snapped up that market. I mean, that's really – that's a significant security issue. We're going to have to – We're going to have to address that. And thankfully, we have identified some large deposits. I think it was Nevada.
But rare earth kinds of minerals, I mean, that's a serious security issue because the new economy and a lot of the new technology is going to depend on those kinds of incredibly – I think a lot of kinds of minerals that some people have never even heard in their life have no idea what that even – why that's important. Right.
That's what's also true is especially what happened after after Russia invaded. And it was very clear that Europe had have Russians kind of by the short hairs that a lot of their Europe was they were dependent on some of the Russian gas. That's a fact, too. And, you know, it's also it's also what's true is that fossil fuels are part of our energy stack. Right.
Our energy has to evolve, whether that's hydrogen or nuclear. Now, even nuclear, that conversation is reemerging. I grew up in South Pennsylvania. Maybe you've heard of Three Island. Sure, Three Mile Island. I had to evacuate when that happened. Did you really? Yeah, I had to evacuate. Wow. Because they could have turned – we could have never returned there. I mean, that was really tense.
Now they're reopening that because Microsoft is going to buy the electricity because now that's going to be nuclear to run the data centers and those things. It's an important conversation. So if you are committed, and I think it's, you know, I do believe that you really have to make sure that nuclear is part of that conversation, too, because, you know, zero kinds of emissions.
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