Matt Gaetz
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I think that it's inevitable.
Yes.
I think that I will tell my grandkids what it was like to order food from a person.
That will go the way of the payphone.
There are like 7 million American men who make their living driving today in one form or another.
Those jobs are gone in the next half decade.
I think that's when you start to see these calls for universal basic income because we will say that there's such wealth being created on a lot of these tech platforms that doesn't get shared broadly.
And I worry that that draw politically is something that will zap the motivation of the country in a bad way.
Just look at this healthcare debate that's happening right now as a microcosm of this trend.
Republicans are trying to cobble together something that they think is a free market approach to healthcare, as if anything in healthcare is a free market.
And Democrats are just saying, we're going to give you free stuff for longer.
And I think that Republicans in swing districts have seen that and said, we can't beat that.
So we have to have our own version of, we'll give you free stuff longer.
And you may see these Obamacare credits extended via a discharge petition that does just that.
And that brings the right in America in line with where the right has moved in Europe, which is toward economic liberalism, which I'm not for.
They spent their whole life building it.
They sold it for...
five million bucks.
Exactly right.
They have just enough money.