Steve Baxter

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2 Worlds Collide Podcast · #107 - Steve Baxter - Labor's Budget Will Destroy Australia's Future · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

We had the money.

We could afford it.

In 2011, 12, I thought, you know how you do this now is you get an Office 365 subscription, you get a laptop, a phone, Office 365, a browser, and a zero.

And so for like $100, $200 a month, you have the $400,000 solution all of a sudden.

Well, that's cool.

So all of a sudden, you don't need to go and raise $400,000 from someone to do that.

You have that same level of capability, for example.

right so but then i thought to myself wait a second that's available to me here in australia it's also available to the young hungry desperate kid in the favela in brazil who wants to pull himself out of the muck who can get the 2000 laptop in the subscription and he can write code and he can do this so we are i i instantly realized we were export exposed to desperate people in other countries because in general the cost of capital to run these smart businesses come right down

So that's what really triggered me, I suppose, in trying to do things so that we have to get smart in this country.

Now, I think we can do many things in Australia.

I love mining and extractive industries.

I love agriculture.

We still do those, but we can also do other things at the same time.

Whereas too many people sort of say we should forget those and do this.

I'm like, no, you morons.

No, we have to do both.

We can do both.

So, a lot of things I do is about trying to actually pull that mentality through and get people to try harder to set their horizons further on a bunch of other stuff because we are trade exposed to anyone in the world who can afford a cheap-ass laptop and an Office 365 subscription who can disrupt the living daylights out of what we do.

So, that was a large part of that sort of purpose for me to get involved with this stuff because we are…

And so that's mobile labor, and now capital is also mobile.

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