Tom Bilyeu

Resource wise, America is in a good spot.

But there are key vulnerabilities that we have right now.

Rare earth processing is a big one.

So we can build towards that, but you're not going to be able to do it by Tuesday.

So you've got the chip manufacturing that we need.

We've got the energy needs to keep up with China in terms of the AI race that we're going to have to address next.

You right now, your pharmaceuticals come a lot from China.

There's a ton of things that we still rely on China for.

So you would have to find your way to shoring all of those up.

But yes, from an isolationist perspective, if it's done well over time and you can buy yourself five or 10 years.

you'd be in a good place.

But man, that won't be without consequences.

And I don't think, so globalism was these huge trade-offs, but they were trade-offs, meaning you were getting something for it.

You weren't just giving things up, but you hollowed out the middle class to do globalization because basically to speed run this,

There is a certain type of person that's going to only be able to hold down a certain type of job.

And when you have middle class, working class jobs, factories where somebody isn't sitting at a desk trying to do intellectual work.

But instead, they are working with their hands.

They are doing a trade like they thrive at that.

They're able to do well.

They're able to make a living.