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…Great. Joe? I've been listening to a podcast called, Your Undivided Attention, that's the center for humane technology, Tristan Harris. There's an episode called A Problem Well-Stated is Half Solved and his guest is this scholar named Daniel Schmachtenberger, I think. It's relevant to what we're talking about because when he's saying the problem well-stated is half solved, I've never really heard a conversation that, to me, so sharply and comprehensively observed what's going wrong with the world and what it might take to fix it. Not that they're offering comprehensive solutions but we all hear all the time, like there's climate change, Facebook's also breaking democracy, there's a rise in authoritarianism, also incredible inequality and all these different things. But it feels like whack-a-mole. How could we ever possibly address all of these things? One of the things that he was getting at was part of what is interesting to me about the Uber story that I was touching on earlier also, which is, a lot of it does come down to, what's the incentive? How does the whole big system work? When you've got a system that mandates exponential economic growth, but you've got a finite planet, it's by definition, unsustainable. We're definitely heading for a catastrophe unless we change the way the system works and no longer require it to be grow-or-die, grow-or-die, grow-or-die. By the way, that was a phrase. That's the name of episode one, Grow or Die. I came away from that podcast pretty thoroughly convinced that all the other things are dominoes to that one and that if we can't change that, we're not going to get any of the other ones. But if we can change that, we may have a shot of solving the rest. That's beautifully said, perfectly said.…

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