Rand Paul
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But there has to be work for the mental well-being of people.
They cannot sit around and it โ
Which gets back to my speakeasy, and it may or may not have to be secret, but people are going to go work even just to work.
But I also think that the more leisure time you have, AI is going to give โ I grant them that AI is going to give us more leisure time.
And we also are progressing and progress is exponential at this point.
In 1820, before the Industrial Revolution, at the beginning of it, 98% of people lived on less than $2 a day.
And the World Bank does these statistics.
The only people who didn't were royalty.
The only obesity was among royalty.
Regular people, even in 1920, there were no fat people.
Well, they didn't have processed food back then.
They didn't have abundance of time.
They didn't have an overabundance of food.
The reason we're taller, everybody but me got more calories and got taller.
But in 1820, 98% of people live in abject poverty, less than $2 a day.
Today, not just the United States, the entire world is less than 10% live on $2 a day.