Pierre Poilievre
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We have too many of those.
What we need is more opportunity in the Indigenous communities themselves.
Look, it's an incredible opportunity.
I think it could massively increase the availability of goods and services at much lower prices if it's allowed to and if monetary inflation doesn't cancel out all the benefits again.
But one thing I ask myself is if AI is going to replace a number of different tasks that we do, what kind of meaning will people have in their lives, right?
I'm a big believer in Viktor Frankl, incredible psychologist.
And his thesis was that people need meaning, even more than they need food and water.
They need meaning in their lives to give them happiness.
And he tells the story of a group therapy session where there were two ladies.
One was a very wealthy woman who had married a very rich man.
And she was sitting next to a woman who lived in poverty and had two children, one who died early and the other who was severely disabled.
And he said to both of them, when you're on your deathbed at 80, what will you look back upon your life and say?
And the wealthy woman said, well, I'll say that I had an easy life with lots of joys and easy, frivolous pleasures, but it all really meant nothing.
Whereas the mother who had struggled and fought for her kids said, well, I look back on my life, and though my first child had a short life, it was a beautiful one.
And my second child had a disability.
I made him into a great person.
And I would look back at my life and say it was an incredible success.
So the point being.
that life is not just a pleasure machine.
It's about having meaning.