Simon Sinek
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And when you have fear, you have emotional reactions that have nothing to do with computers, nothing to do with algorithms, nothing to do with generative AI.
What it has to do with, at the minimum, is how I vote.
But worse, it can get people so afraid that they start lashing out in antisocial ways, sometimes as individuals and sometimes as groups, right?
And we are not talking about the social ripples.
We're also living in a world where the haves and the have-nots, the richest people and your frontline worker, the disparity is so great, right?
The average, so if you go back, I think,
50 years or so, 40 years or so, on average, a CEO made about 35 times what the lowest paid worker.
And now you're talking 400, 500, 600, 700 times, 800 times the lowest paid workers, right?
The disparity is so great.
1% of the population owns 80% of the stock, you know?
I mean, it's just, it's so great.
And when you have huge gaps...
between the wealthy and those who work to make the wealthy wealthy, um, um, that is a recipe for rebellion.
So we already are living in a tinderbox right now, where this is what, this is normal.
Right?
And we've seen the rise of this populist message.
I don't care if you're Republican and Democrat.
We heard it from Trump.
We heard it from Bernie Sanders.
Right?