Van Jones
speaker
316 appearances
13 recordings
7 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Aug
Van Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you dump out all the good on one side of the room, the people on the other side of the room, they're not just miserable.
At some point, their baby asks them a question.
Mommy, Daddy, how come we don't have what they have?
And now you're not just unhappy, you're ashamed.
You're humiliated.
I've worked in some of the toughest prisons in this world.
The one thing you don't want to do is take somebody who already has nothing and then humiliate them.
they become the most dangerous person in that prison, even though they only weigh 100 pounds.
We're not just risking mass unemployment.
We're risking mass humiliation.
And that has to be avoided.
There's another reason that coming back to the people who embody ancestral intelligence at the grassroots level will be helpful.
It's because it would be helpful
For you, you are in a very difficult situation if you're in the tech world.
You have tremendous power.
You have tremendous responsibilities.
You're not just co-founding companies and co-founding firms.
You're co-founding a new human civilization.
And there's a lot of temptation.
Money, fame, power, sex.
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