Tom Bilyeu

And yet we still find ourselves trapped there

It drives me mad.

It drives me mad.

Yeah.

I think if you look back at that time and you see altruistic behavior, you're not being clear-eyed about what actually happened.

What I think actually happened was you saw an economic opportunity that somebody was like, oh my God, I can go capitalize on that, which is exactly what we should want.

The only thing you can trust any human to do is be selfish.

Mother Teresa would not help people if it made her vomit and feel badly about herself.

She did it because it felt awesome.

It was good for the soul.

And it made her feel uplifted and all the hard work felt worth it.

Awesome.

Yeah, that's right.

Entrepreneurship is a certain personality trait.

And when it is unleashed, it will create new things.

It will push progress forward.

And then if you don't have certain regulations, it will go absolutely pathological and it will consume everything for the dollar.

Yeah.

So you want to put these bumpers in the alley to keep it from going pathological because humans absolutely will do that.

But if you don't open up the regulations enough to go, I want these selfish people that want to like figure out how to get rich doing this thing.