Zack Kass

And actually, I will go even further and say this, which is that when I decided to write the book, I decided to write it as an homage to John Maynard Keynes, who wrote in 1930 the most important paper that I've ever read, called The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, which is framed behind me.

John Maynard Keynes wrote this paper against the backdrop of abject despair.

Everyone in the world was suffering under the Great Depression, and many people were literally dying in the streets.

And he went on this lecture circuit in Europe and then came back to the US and wrote this paper in which he argued, and I quote, I must now disembarrass myself to imagine a future that I will certainly not live to see, one in which humans will have solved the economic problem and be faced with something more profound.

The father...

of modern macroeconomics was arguing that things would get really cheap and then we wouldn't know what to do.

That in fact, our future battle wasn't economic, it was spiritual.

My words, not his.

And that I think is actually now my case.

I've arrived now at a place where I firmly believe we are going to house people

We are going to feed people.

We are going to educate people.

We are going to care for people.

And the hardest part is going to be figuring out why are we here?

Why are we actually here if we can solve all these problems so easily?

And I don't have a ton of answers.

But part of the argument in the next renaissance that I lead people to eventually, or that I try to help people arrive at eventually, is a reminder that this is...

not going to be easy, but maybe not for the reasons they think.

Thank you so much for having me.

And I look forward to being back.