Paul Atkins

And so these are really more side issues and not central to what's important for the economics of the company.

So they're distractions.

Well, that's one thing we'll be looking at as well.

So all of this is, I mean, compare it to a boat.

You know, if you have a boat and you don't tend to it at least every year and scrape the barnacles off, you know, you're going to slow down its process through the water.

And so that's what we're going to try to do here.

But, you know, go through our rulebook and try to throw out things that

don't deal with financial materiality of a company.

And so and then so that's what the cost of it is lawyers and accountants and everything else to go over disclosures that have just grown over time.

But then you're talking about the actual time to market, which is very important, obviously.

But basically, we're still living in a paper world from the 1930s and 40s with our rulebook, and it's time to make it fit for purpose for the 21st century.

Well, I mean, Hamilton basically stood for the power of free markets and individual liberty and choice, you know, as to pursuing what the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence were talking about.

And that's the

the protection of private property, the pursuit of livelihood.

And as

they use the term happiness, which is not necessarily, you know, let's skip down the street and, you know, and be happy and whistle.

But it was a concept of, you know, proper balance, you know, and to find that proper balance is what the Constitution guarantees.

So anyway, so that's what Hamilton was focused on.

And I think he was correct.

And so that and, you know, Ludwig von Mises also, you know, has talked about,