Zack Kass
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Or I think Florida might have a little less or more.
I can't remember, but it's roughly like that.
And he's like, well, we don't even have that much energy.
He's like, well, we're going to need that much for this site.
And he was right.
And we're going to produce it.
And we're going to do it.
And I am reminded constantly that there are two ways to look at this.
If we keep talking about these huge numbers, then we actually distort the value of numbers and nothing matters.
My other argument is, why can't we make...
For example, housing, healthcare, and education, 100 times less expensive.
These are these ideas that are so weird to people where I'm like, why does housing have to be prohibitively expensive?
The reason it's prohibitively expensive today is because we policy it into oblivion.
It's because we don't tax second homes, which is a very controversial opinion that I have.
It's because we don't have non-resident tax.
It's because we allow people to hoard housing and then we don't allow other people to build it.
If we allowed people to build more housing, it would not be prohibitively expensive.
It doesn't have to be this way.
And by the way, in five years, when you drive across LA in an autonomous vehicle for $5, if a trip to the emergency room still has the chance to bankrupt you five blocks away in an ambulance,
You can confidently know that what technology has done for autonomous vehicles, it has failed to do for the healthcare system.