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Elon Musk Discusses Socialism · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Elon Musk
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  Podcast. This is a show where we discuss
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  the critical crossroads that shape SpaceX, Tesla X, The
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  Boring Company, and Neuralink. I'm your host, Will Walden.
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  The fundamental error of socialism is shifting capital
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  allocation from highly effective entrepreneurs to astonishly
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  ineffective government. Right.
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  I think we'll find Hardy agreement in this room.
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  So yeah, I think that this is this is definitely a stacked
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  deck on that front. But but yeah, the, you know,
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  there's you'll, you'll hear this sort of argument like, oh, we
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  shouldn't have some greedy corporation do it.
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  We should have the government do it.
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  I'm like, well, actually the government is just a corporation
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  in the limit. So if you it's, it's a
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  government is the government is a corporation with a monopoly on
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  violence. So if if you're unhappy with a
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  commercial corporation doing it, you should be actually very
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  unhappy with the the government doing it since it is simply the
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  a corporation, the most corporate thing.
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  And you know, you can actually easily get get more sway in a
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  company than you can the outcome of a company than you can in the
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  government. So I mean, everyone's
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  experienced this going to the DMV ever said like, do you want
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  the DMV at scale? Probably not OK.
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  All right, let. The government is the DMV at
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  scale. Let's try another one.
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  Discrimination on the basis of anything other than merit is
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  wrong. Yeah, I think, I think we do
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  need to have a merit based system because as soon as you
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  you go down the path that you're going to discriminate on on non
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  Barrett based, then then where do you stop?
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  So, yeah, I think we need to be as rigorous about merit as
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  possible. And while it is, yeah, I, I to
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  to me that seems like it's, it's a foundational, foundational
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  thing. So again, I also think this room
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  is probably supportive of of a merit based situation.
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  But But yeah, that's that that is, yeah, I think we should be,
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  yeah. Not not discriminated on
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  anything other than merit. I I.
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  All right, good. I'm happy you agree with
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  yourself. Yeah.
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  Exactly. I'm like, wait, who is this guy?
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  He really sounds great. All right, so let's let's look
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  at the next one. Regulation and regulatory
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  consistency. Like Gulliver, tied down by
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  thousands of little strings, we lose our freedom one regulation
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  at a time. Yes.
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  So this is actually a very important point that I think is
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  is not talked about enough that laws and regulations are
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  immortal. They don't die, humans die, but
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  but laws and regulations can last forever.
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  So if over if year after year there are more laws and
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  regulations passed and more regulatory bodies created,
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  eventually everything will be illegal.
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  And that's why you see the the California high speed rail has
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  made a, a tiny section of that doesn't even have rail on it.
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  And for, I don't know, several billion dollars because
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  everything's in at this point, California is made almost
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  everything illegal. So you can't make progress now
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  the the the historically, what has cleared away the cobwebs of
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  regulation has been war. Now we prefer not to have a war.
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  So in order to have civilization function without war, you have
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  to have a you have to actively eliminate laws and regulations.
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  So you have to have basically a garbage collection process for
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  rules and regulations that is necessary.
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  Otherwise you get hardening of the arteries and over time
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  nothing can get done. The most poignant example that I
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  can think of that happened this week was this the sad picture of
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  the California high speed rail, which is, yeah, it's just
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  billions of dollars spent for practically nothing, but it'll
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  it'll only get worse year after year.
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  So we must have a regulatory sort of clearing house garbage
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  collection process. This is essential or
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  civilization comes grinding to a halt.
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  Well, we used to have sunset that that regulation with
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  sunset. Unfortunately, it's rare today.
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  Yes. All right, let's talk about
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  education. The more you can gamify the
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  process of learning, the better. You do not need to tell your kid
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  to play video games. They will play video games on
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  autopilot all day. So if you make it interactive
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  and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling
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  and far easier to do. Yeah.
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  So the. Yeah.
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  So the way education works today is really much like, like, it's
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  like vaudeville. You know, before there was radio
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  and TV and movies, you had Boardville where every town
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  would have their, their town play the town troupe, the sort
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  of acting troupe. And that would be kind of the,
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  the, that would be the entertainment.
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  So you know, some in a, in a, in a big city, you'd have, you
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  know, much better players than say in a small city.
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  But then along came movies and TV and, and, and then you say,
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  look at video games where you take the the smartest, best
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  people in any arena, like whether they're acting, writing,
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  directing, special effects. You spend, you know, 10s of
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  millions, sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars creating a
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  great movie or a great video game.
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  And, and you make it as compelling as possible.
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  Now that crushes, vaudeville crushes.
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  Like imagine you're not in New York, mention you're in
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  Bakersfield. OK, then you and you got instead
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  of Batman being like, you know, the Nolan brothers, it's Batman,
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  the Bakersfield sort of acting troupe.
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  It wouldn't be as good. That's how teaching works today.
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  So what you actually want to have is an interactive learning
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  experience that is as compelling as possible.
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  And you do not want to act. You don't actually want a
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  teacher in front of a board doing a voidable act.
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  You want and you want it to be engaged real time feedback.
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  So that's and and then you, you, there are a few other principles
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  in, in in teaching you, you have to establish relevance.
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  Otherwise your mind will will want to forget things.
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  So our, our, our, our mind is constantly trying to forget as
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  much as possible. So you'll only remember things
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  if, if, if your mind can establish relevance or there is
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  a strong emotional element to it.
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  Otherwise you're going to basically forget, forget
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  everything. Memory is, is very expensive
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  from an evolutionary standpoint. So it's trying to forget as much
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  as possible. So, so when teaching a course,
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  you, you, you have to explain to kids why it's important.
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  And then you want to teach to the, to the problem instead of
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  teaching the tools. So what I mean by that is if you
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  said, here's a car engine, we're, we're, we're going to try
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  to understand how to, how this car engine works.
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  We're going to take it apart. So what do we need to do to take
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  it apart? Well, we need a wrench, we need
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  some screwdrivers, we need a hoist and a pulley.
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  And we're going to take it apart and we're going to see how it
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  all works. That's engaging.
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  And along the way you learn about wrenches and screwdrivers
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  and you know all the tools that are needed.
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  That's that actually is engaging and compelling.
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  But the way teaching more typically works is we're going
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  to teach you a course on screwdrivers and a course on
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  wrenches and you're like, why do I have a course on wrenches?
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  It's not obvious. That would be like, say, a
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  course on calculus without explaining what calculus
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  calculus is used for. Hey, thank you so much for
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