Ro Khanna
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The AI has these machines that are basically putting together the phone.
I mean, it's a model of the iPhone.
Sure.
Just two points on AI, though.
We do need to think about the job displacement and what we can do as a country.
I believe the federal government has to step in
for young people in particular to say, look, you can work for a few years if you can't find a private sector job in helping on childcare, eldercare, your communities, healthcare, government services.
Maybe we make AI so that the DMV works better and people start to think that the government services actually are effective.
But I think that there has to be a lot of thought put in to the displacement and being ahead of the curve.
And the only thing I'd say about China is while they're formidable, the one statistic that made me think we've got a lot of things right here that they haven't, 20% youth unemployment in China.
And that's because there are all these college graduates.
They don't want to work on a factory line.
And I tease Letnick about screws on the iPhone or something.
A lot of college graduates, they didn't wanna do that in China.
And at the same time, not everyone is gonna be making EVs.
And so in our country, you do a lot of
What that Chinese would say, silly things like you make dating apps and you make comedy apps and you make sports apps and you do a lot of other things and they don't have that.
And I think the that gives us a huge advantage in terms of the creativity and the culture, if we can get the basics right.
Now, the government shut down the fight first is over something that I'm biased, but I fundamentally believe is a basic principle, which is if Congress passes something, like the president has to spend what Congress passes.
It's not discretionary.