Just Outside of the Beltway

This is the podcast for the 1-20-2023 edition of The Business Socializer. Please subscribe HERE. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nick-sorrentino/support

The #FacebookSnowDay, 10-4-2021 was interesting. What happened? Was it an attack? Did someone trip over a cord in Menlo Park? What did all those Instagram influencers do today? ____ This Episode is sponsored by The Business Socializer, the most powerful paid newsletter on the planet for businesses looking for actionable online marketing guidance. CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Socialism is a secular religion with saints and holidays. The chief selling point is that it sells 'heaven on earth". This is a compelling selling point and one can understand why some cling to the ideology. It is a faith. It comforts. It gives a reason for suffering. It offers a way to a better world. It is however economic snake oil. Fundamentally socialism can not price things effectively and is therefore always doomed to eventual implosion. It lacks dynamism. It denies the dignity of the individual. It eventually destroys wealth and prosperity in absolute terms while empowering a class of government managers who act like an aristocracy. Only it's even worse than a heredity aristocracy, it's a aristocracy of busybodies, of planners, of bureaucrats. Socialism also tends to slip toward authoritarianism. There is a tendency to try to manage every minute detail of society. At it's worst socialism ends with the gulag or the starvation of tens of millions in places like the Ukraine and China. But it is a faith and its roots are deep. Many of us had hoped that we had ACTUALLY progressed past the ugliest type of socialism. Sadly however some seek to keep the religion alive. And many of these people are young people who given the carnage of the last century have no excuse for their infatuation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

The implosion of Evergrande has been called China's Lehman moment. Is it? If the Chinese economy continues to wobble, or worse, will CCP leadership lash out militarily? If Taiwan is invaded (one day) would the USA enter into a war? We trail China in some areas of military tech, including in "carrier killer" tech, and China now also has the largest navy in the world. Is this an unstable situation geopolitically? Is it a threat to the USA? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

No child in this country should be hungry. Much of "food insecurity" can be solved privately, but we don't begrudge some single mother who is just trying to feed her children for using SNAP. But SNAP is big business for big food business. US taxpayers subsidize food for the poor , but this money ultimately goes to soda companies, and similar outfits. Lobbyists in Washington make sure that the products of their clients are on the SNAP list. These sugary foods then contribute to poor health outcomes for the poor. We the US taxpayer then must subsidize the healthcare of the these people who are ill. By so doing we are then also subsidizing the bottom line of large healthcare corporations. Also Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is from Iowa, corn country (think corn syrup) and a former Monsanto lobbyist. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

5 TRILLION dollars! 5 trillion... And most of this will flow to the politically connected. And it's not like inflation has become a problem all of a sudden or anything. Yes, let's pour more gasoline onto that monetary fire. Who pays for all this? YOU DO. Who gets paid? Most likely NOT YOU. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

It appears that yes, we are. From Taiwan, to Afghanistan, to Africa, to even Australia the rivalry grows with the Red Dragon. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

1984? Brave New World? Logans Run? Terminator? V for Vendetta? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqi8m4CEEY --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

We had to leave sooner or later, but we shouldn't have been there in the first place. Afghanistan is the "Graveyard of Empires" and we should have headed this lesson. China tries to make hay of our leaving, warns Taiwan that we will do the same "once war breaks out in the Taiwan Strait. Thousands of lives lost along with trillions in taxpayer dollars. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

In Europe there have been massive protests against mandatory vaccinations and vaccination passports. China is feeling Covid in a real way again and supply lines are being disrupted - again. Covid is destabilizing the world. China rumbles, Afghanistan crumbles, how will this chapter in world history end? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Inflation is erupting in the USA for the first real time since the early 1980s. Groceries, cars, houses all going up. Recent wage gains are being eroded by this inflation. How is inflation impacting you? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

California has lots of good stuff and lots of bad stuff. Is it really headed for 3rd World status? Why is the middle class moving out? Are the beaches and mountains worth the hassle? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Bill Gates says that cow flatulence is creating too much C02 and as such we should grow our meat in test tubes instead of on the hoof. That does not sound appetizing. However REAL steak is still readily available and I show in this episode you how to impress your friends with your meat grilling skills. It's not that hard and people will LOVE your steaks. (Put your dad to shame.) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Biden want's you the taxpayer to spend another $3 trillion on "infrastructure", AKA a Democratic Party wish list of programs including federal funding of universal pre-school? Where will this money come from? Some will be debt. In the end it will all morph into debt. But taxes are going to go up too including (at this point - so who knows) couples making $200,000/year. ($400k was supposed to be the limit.) Dems also want to raise the corporate tax from 21% to 28% which is basically job suicide. The USA long had the highest corporate rates in the world and this chased away business. Now we are more competitive, but raising corporate rates (which are ultimately paid for by the consumer in one way or another) would set us way back. This is absolute folly but some in Congress want to move now and to fund big government dreams before Congress potentially changes hands. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

There is no government unless the private sector pays for the government. Civil servants are supposed to be just that - servants. They work at the pleasure of the taxpayer fundamentally. However there is a large group of people these days who think getting rich in politics is perfectly legitimate. This is an example of a creeping banana republic kind of thinking in this country. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

2008 was an important point in the history of this country. Probably as important as 2001. It was in the Great Recessions that the American people saw the big shots abandon capitalism and anything like fair play in the marketplace to save their skins, while everyday people lost their homes. - The result? People blamed "capitalism" for this unfair situation and started to demand that government bail them out too. The thing is, bailouts are the exact opposite of capitalism, and it is the American taxpayers, the engine of American prosperity, who have paid for these bailouts anyway. (In more ways than one.) Our current system is not sustainable. But the politicians/cronies/other people addicted to government won't stop until the system comes to an agonizing halt. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

The Biden Pentagon is dangerously engaging in partisan games. This must stop immediately. The Republican Party should hold up and celebrate REPUBLIC-an values, The Constitution, federalism, rule of law, limited government, as a way forward. A "big tent" that is big enough to counter a Democratic Party that all too often seems driven by a mob mentality. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

There's whole lot o' stupidity going on these days. From Cardi B, to arguing over pronouns in Congress, we are a distracted, childish nation. Who will step up? Will this era ever end? How does it end? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Bill is correct. We are a silly people now. We spend time arguing about pronouns and microaggressions while China, now a serious country, laughs. We discuss China, and American silliness, and the American crony capitalist system - which helps to enable this “silly” non-serious disposition. Can it be turned around? Can we get serious. Can we start acting like adults? - I don't know. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

My governor Northam in VA is a guide for Cuomo. Just don't leave. People will get over it. (In the case of Northam is was a blackface photo). If you had shame you wouldn't have gone into politics in the first place right? Please consider becoming a sponsor at HERE. It's super easy and helps us do what we do. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Yesterday was the last day for my old website AC2News.com. Part of Against Crony Capitalism, AC2 covered all news crony for almost 10 years. Then, Facebook effectively strangled it. Our 400,000 followers could no longer see us in their feeds. It's a sad day but there are other opportunities and adventures to be had. However all people who believe in a free Internet need to sit up and take notice NOW. - In time the censors of this era will likely be derided as busybodies and illiberal. But in the meantime they must be confronted. Liberty, as Jefferson said, is only one generation away from being extinguished at any time. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Is affirmative action fair and just? We argue that it is not. 2 wrongs don't make a right. But there are interesting complications that are often not discussed in the affirmative action equation. Harry and Meghan, if you can't go back to the UK at least go back to Canada. This is the USA. We don't have "royals" here. The social media fact checkers are out of control at the moment. They have gone far beyond "fact" checking. They are now censors. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Has the GOP become the party of the working/middle class and small business, while the Dems the party - generally - of the folks who feed off of the wealth created by the working/middle class and business owners. Think govt workers, cronies in large corporations with deep connections to government and access to subsidies. We are in an interesting period of transition and change. To be clear, I am no Republican. But I am no Dem either. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

1. The bots talk to you when you chat with the bank online. They give you a ticket when you run a red light. How long until robot judges, cops? - Not a joke. Worth considering for society's sake. 2. "Equity" is a dog whistle term being used in social justice circles. -- It does not mean "equality". It means the opposite. It means the "equality of outcomes" in society. The only way to make that happen is through the use of brute governmental force. Think lowest common denominator. #VivaFountainhead --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

This podcast is not going to be all politics and economic policy. Sometimes we'll talk about other stuff. Today we are talking cars. You know what is awesome? A BMW M5. A new Corvette. A Ford F-150. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Are “fascism” and “socialism” just 2 sides of the same coin? Most people who read this website probably know where we land on this question. The two ideologies have the same father and are not really that different from one another. Both are collectivist dreams. Both venerate the state over the individual. Both are obsessed with works projects and managing the economy. Both see the ends as justifying the means. And yet by some bizarre accident (actually it's not really that much of an accident) of history fascism has somehow become associated with the “Right” and socialism with the “Left.” Part of the problem is that the terms “Right” and “Left” don't really make much sense. There are those who are for more statism and there are those who are for less statism. Both Nazis and Communists are for ever more power to the state. Those with a classically liberal drift are on the other end of the political spectrum (assuming we want to be intellectually honest). As Daniel Hannan points out below, one of the key differences between the two similar camps is that Hitler (and others) saw that it was just more efficient to keep the bourgeois factory owners and managers in place than to liquidate the entire class as they had in Soviet Russia. It wasn't like the factory owners and other business owners weren't under the thumb of the party vanguard post 1933, or that the industrialists even “owned” the Nazi Party. They were just kept on and co-opted in technocratic German style. The other key factor in differentiating between the fascists and the “socialists” was that Bolshevism was widely associated with the Jewish intelligentsia and Hitler of course despised the Jews. Hitler hated the Jews (tragically) even more than he hated bourgeois liberal republicanism and democracy and that is why they were the first to meet his wrath. (From The Telegraph) On 16 June 1941, as Hitler readied his forces for Operation Barbarossa, Josef Goebbels looked forward to the new order that the Nazis would impose on a conquered Russia. There would be no come-back, he wrote, for capitalists nor priests nor Tsars. Rather, in the place of debased, Jewish Bolshevism, the Wehrmacht would deliver “der echte Sozialismus”: real socialism. Goebbels never doubted that he was a socialist. He understood Nazism to be a better and more plausible form of socialism than that propagated by Lenin. Instead of spreading itself across different nations, it would operate within the unit of the Volk. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

It seems that there is some consensus forming across right and left right now in reaction to ongoing violations of The Constitution: freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, right to be secure in our person. I have been quite adamant about the massive mistake I think half of this country made by letting Biden into the White House. But in light of the fact that people like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Naomi Wolf and others generally considered on the "left" are actively fighting the draconian government actions of the last year particularly, I offer my support - for what it is worth. I applaud these first leaders on this issue from the left. I am thankful for them and it will take both "right" and "left" and "libertarian" to turn this around. This is a helluva good country in many respects. Let's not let the authoritarians take it down. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

From a prior FB post: The old media felt that they lost control when Trump was elected. They saw the rise of libertarian thought, and then the more conservative TEA Party after The Ron Paul Revolution and both the far left and many corporations (not fans of a free market) feared it. When Hillary, their candidate lost, they decided that they were going to try to cram the information genie back into the bottle. George Soros said effectively this - along with many other people on the far left. And others on the neocon "right." --- That people actually started to counter the official narrative effectively scared them to death. --- Will Americans allow this to happen? -- The idea is to break the will of the everyday person so they will just go along. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Love him or hate him Rush changed the world. I would say for the most part for the better. He helped create talk radio as we know it. In some ways he even defined it. The only comparable person in terms of influence MIGHT be Howard Stern. Politically speaking Rush had no peer however. A lightning rod, he took scorn head on. He said what many people were thinking, but had not, and was a key part of the "Republican Revolution" of 1994. On this day many are cheering his death as he was a constant thorn in the side of many Democrats/"progressives". But quietly, we know that many of these same people will also sort of miss him. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

We saw socialism crushed. We saw hair metal crushed. We saw something close to punk become "mainstream". We had The Goonies, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. We smoked cigarettes and stunk up our flannel shirts. We saw the Berlin Wall fall. We saw the Internet rise. Our parents divorced. We didn't have our childhoods scheduled for us. We remember when MTV had music videos. When CDs where high tech. When Cable TV invaded the neighborhood along with Nintendo consoles. Pot was still a drug you could go to jail for. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Like him or hate him only Trump could be impeached twice, lose reelection and still leave DC with his opponents thinking he won. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

1. Yes, the Dems want to make sure Trump can't run again. Yes, they want something to finally stick to the former president. But the real reason for this "trial" is bigger. 2. Hundreds of thousands of "blue staters" in California, New York, Illinois, etc. are pulling up stakes and moving to "red states". Why is this happening? Will these refugees bring bad policy with them? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Who wants to be replaced by a robot? (Not the only problem - by a long shot.) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

The "civil war" within the GOP is an ongoing affair. It's not new. The effort to remove Liz Cheney from leadership in Congress is just a battle in a conflict that is nearly 10 years old. The Ron Paul Revolution, the TEA Party, Trump, now post-Trump have been different phases in this "war". At this point it's not a split within the party so much as an effort by the neocons and old establishment, who now constitute a shrinking minority, to turn back time to when they called the shots. They are very unlikely to win. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Don't let the people speak online and challenge the old media. Don't let the people trade stocks and challenge the hedge fund billionaires. The response to the GameStoppers by the "establishment" has been as deplorable as it has been predictable. The hedgies lost, but then they cheated. The guys with all the advantages cheated. Where have we seen this before? Times have changed. The great middle class of America is newly empowered with amazing new technological tools. The old order must give way. But as we have seen with the recent online censorship and with this week's screwing of small time investors at Robin Hood and other outlets, the establishment is not inclined to make a smooth exit. They are inclined to do what is wrong, to save (or at least cling to) their positions of privilege. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Yesterday and today the little guy, the retail investor, made the hedge funds pay for their arrogant overly leveraged short positions in GameStop. But the big guys didn't like losing so pressure was brought to limit (stop) trading in GameStop shares, thereby saving the bacon of the hedge funds - the big guys. This is similar to how the old media has sought to shut out voices from the new media recently. The old media, like the hedge funds think they deserve their privileged positions and that any resistance from the everyday person should be swiftly dealt with. It's a crony capitalist system where government and those connected to the government have one set of rules - and get bailouts when they fail - and the rest of the world is shafted. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Today GameStop became a Fortune 500 company. It is unlikley to remain so. But some people just made a bunch of money, while others, short sellers, got hammered. What's the next stock poised for this kind of radical movment? We don't know but here are 10 contenders, the most shorted stocks in the market. And keep an eye on Reddit - for the time being. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

If you saw the video, its not a train wreck, but Biden could not find his pen. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Opposing the corporate left order is now not OK according to the Dems/Biden. Part of this is the ongoing war on journalism, pushed by the old media who fundamentally fear losing market share. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

What is left-fascism. It's not a contradiction in terms. We explain why. Glenn Greenwald warns us about the domestic "war on terror" that some hope will be used to silence any opposition to "neoliberalism". Facebook, Twitter, Google, the hammer has been coming down on many in recent days. Is this right? Washington is run by a relatively small group of people who constitute a "court". Trump's main crime was annoying this "court." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Trump leaves, Biden comes in. J. Lopez (is she still doing anything at this point?) drapes herself over the Capitol steps for some reason. Why so much military? Was it a show? Lady Gaga, is there also for some reason. -----Why? (Who in America cares in any way about "Lady" Gaga? - This is an open question.) Normal America takes leave. But no one else is there either? Empty Washington. Biden looks ahead. America looks ahead. We look ahead. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

One trucker strike would decimate many large cities. They don't realize this. Which is kinda weird. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

The "mainstream" or "old" media has an "official" narrative that it holds to. Don't question this narrative. Don't ask questions about Covid responses, or how certain stories are kept out of the public eye, or why big business seems to keep benefiting during this time while the small business people are crushed. Oh, DON'T say anything about voter fraud either. That is just a myth (WINK;) Here is Rick Santelli's "TEA Party Rant" from 2009 as referenced in this podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

The Covid creeps step up their draconian rules in the wake of what looks like a Biden win. The governor of New Jersey hears it from the citizenry while dining. (You are such a d--k.) Have we forgotten the proper role of government. It's SUPPOSED to work for the people. We are not supposed to be ruled in this country. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

$34 billion in taxes on guns people already own? There was a time when information was mostly free from censorship online, and it wasn't that long ago. Cash is freedom, that's why many politicians and economists want to kill it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Today we discuss a contentious topic. Never tell a "socialist", particularly a neo-socialist, that fascism is a form of socialism. He or she will go to all lengths to explain why it is that fascism is not socialism. Thing is, they are incorrect. In this episode we explore and explain why. Per the episode, this is a link to the referenced article : Fascism Came To America Wrapped In A Rainbow Flag And Wearing A P****hat (From an anti-Trump lefty) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

In the all out attacks on President Trump we see a political establishment that fears change deeply. Change is not what "progressives" seem to want. They want more of the same. More government. More micromanagement of our lives. Ever higher taxes. More bureaucracy. More government. And even a big government guy like Trump scares them because to some degree he is a CHANGE AGENT. And "progressives" like things just the way they are in Washington DC. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

China is far from capitalist. The entire Chinese economy is built upon the fusion of business and state, crony capitalism. Accounting is suspect. Economic numbers are probably as bad. There are sham companies Americans are investing in without knowing it via ETFs. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

The NBA has sold itself out. So what if the people of Hong Kong are fighting for their lives against Chinese Communist Party? The NBA wants to do business in China, and capitulating to the Chinese authoritarian regime is what the league would prefer to do. The money is too big. The NBA might not care about Hong Kong, or the people held in Chinese concentration camps, or the alleged organ harvesting of prisoners, or the oppression of religious minorities, or well, anything China does. But many of the American people see in the Hong Kongers a people fighting for what is right. Who does the NBA value more, the good graces of the Chinese Communist Party, or the American public? Also, we examine why socialists think things like $300 haircuts are perfectly fine for them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Right now children are being manipulated to push authoritarian agendas. Gretta Thunberg (climate change) and David Hogg (gun control) are tools of very powerful interests. Public relations firms push these figureheads as wunderkind experts, but they aren't. Mostly they are just (legitimately) privileged white kids spewing what they've been told to spew for the cameras. And a certain percentage of the population buys this nonsense. Do you remember what you were like at 17? Where you someone who should have been dispensing advice on grand policy issues of the day? Just because these kids have rich connected parents doesn't mean we should be listening to them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Artificial Intelligence is just starting to revolutionize the world. It will profoundly change work, human relationships, and how society in general is ordered. Now is the time to talk about where we're going, whether we can change direction, whether we should change direction, and whether we will indeed one day "make great pets." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support