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Say it loud and say it proud.
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Success is not villainy.
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Well, thank you, Jeff Bezos.
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I really appreciate that.
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I really appreciate you telling us your politics openly and plainly with no nuance.
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Quote, we have to beat China to the moon, and I believe we will beat China to the moon.
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Well, that may be a little bit of shameless promotion for his Blue Origin organization and for cooperation with NASA, which is kind of cool.
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I think everybody wants to expand in the solar system.
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I think everybody wants resources from other planets, the possibility of living on other planets, having human beings advance in technology and medicine, jobs, having the United States, at least unless your politics are that everything's evil, everything needs to be flipped upside down unless you're the one in charge, in which case, then you just need to profit handsomely from all of those rather horrid political statements that you made that you never intend to follow through with unless you're a lunatic.
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We have to be able to land cargo routinely on the moon to support a lunar base on the moon, said Jeff Bezos.
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There's every reason to believe that we could put humans on the moon in 2028.
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Well, then that of course has begged the question.
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With athletes, not that necessarily that athletes and celebrities, or those whom I trust, whether or not we ever landed on the moon in the first place, or if it was some publicity stunt because people watch a TikTok video in which the American flag was facing the wrong way, or there's a ripple in a flag when there shouldn't be anything, or some such theory, whether it's conspiracy or truth, almost matters not at this point.
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Nonetheless, Bezos' argument is that not that the moon is some resource rich satellite orbiting the Earth, but that the Moon is sort of a stepping stone, like Greenland is to launching our submarines and having military bases, like Taiwan and Japan are surrounding China.
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Sort of like our military bases in places like Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
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These are stepping stones to something greater.
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If China were to colonize the moon before the United States, do you think that they would share it?
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Do you believe that they would threaten the United States?
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Do you believe they would destroy the United States' bases on the moon?
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It's important that the United States make it there first, but one can also imagine from a political standpoint, if a different political party were having the presidency, they might allow free cooperation on the moon and not protect its own bastion on the moon.
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Nonetheless, the freedom to transport goods and services on the moon is important because if we had actual bases on the moon, then we could construct other things from the moon, transport other things from the moon, and then finally start having easier access to other planets in our solar system for very interesting things that we might not even know about yet.
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Bezos said that we will use the sooner the lunar soil to manufacture solar cells and possibly oxygen and also rocket fuel.
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So this is of course important.
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In the absence of having this, if one of our geopolitical global enemies from a financial standpoint and possibly a military standpoint has that first, then the United States, the United States will have a significant disadvantage.
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He wants it to be a sustainable, quote, a sustainable lunar base.
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Well, so does everybody else.
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But of course, Bezos is saying, don't punish me for being successful, reward me for being successful because one of the trickle-down, nobody likes that word anymore, thanks, HW Bush, but trickle-down economics is what applies here.
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Meaning that if Bezos' Blue Origin company makes it to the moon and is successful with a lunar colonization and then goes to other parts of the solar system and possibly even beyond, this will be good news for everybody, because everybody has the possibility of benefiting from it.
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Also, this is in large part other than NASA and some, I suppose, taxpayer public funding that goes hand in hand with almost all space travel from the United States.
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His company, Bezos' company, is the one footing the bill.
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His shareholders, his stockholders, his investors, these are the individuals that are footing the bill for all of these projects.
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To the tune of billions and billions of dollars, Bezos is taking a risk here, a significant risk.
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He wants to be rewarded for that risk instead of villainized.
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He understands the political climate is that there's 50% of the population in the United States and growing that views anything involving capitalism that they cannot define, cannot name, and do not understand, and have no idea what socialism is, even though they like it because it feels good to be part of a hive mentality.
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Bezos realizes that he is going to be public enemy number one.
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Our goal is to fly every day.
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Once we're flying every day, we want to fly every hour and then every minute.
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Don't think I'm crazy because dreams become realities and realities become the new truth.
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Okay.
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This leads us to AI.
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How can AI help?
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Well, let's speculate a little bit about how AI can help Jeff Bezos' company.
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AI can help determine the appropriate amount of fuel for launches, launch schedules, launch times, engine upgrades.
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It can help calculate gravitational forces on the moon and what might be required for stabilization.
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It can help determine the proper formulae for rocket fuel and all these things that he wants.
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Bezos claims that there's no sort of disappearance of AI, even if there's some sort of a stock market, bubble pop, as they say, because these things don't disappear.
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The internet didn't disappear, the cotton gin didn't disappear, militaries don't disappear, technology doesn't disappear.
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It continues its breakneck forward movement into the futures.
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Of course, AI data centers in space.
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I personally believe it is a good idea.
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If people argue because they've been paid off and because advocacy groups have been bought off and quote, influencers have been bought off, including like some podcasters, that AI data centers should not be in the United States, well, then why not put them in the ocean?
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Why not put them in outer space?
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What's the problem with that?
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I'm sure there will be a different problem with it when Bernie Sanders says that they should regulate it, and that only the Bernie Sanders group should have money, and only the Bernie Sanders group should make decisions, and that essentially those that claim democracy will die are the ones that wish to control everybody's lives and claim that it's democracy because they are essentially communist ones.
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Nonetheless, if there's a politician who's picking villains and pointing fingers, that means they don't have a solution, said Bezos.
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Well, Mr.
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Bezos, though not previously a fan because of some of your behaviors and some of your actions during the COVID hysteria, I have to say this new Jeff Bezos or this old Jeff Bezos actually having a coming out party of his beliefs and actually taking ownership of what it is that he's doing is wonderful.
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Absolutely wonderful.
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Okay, if Jeff Bezos' predictions are true and people in the future will have more jobs because they're working on these things in tandem with AI, people will have more jobs because there will be more planets, more business, more operations, more industry, and perhaps discoveries that will revolutionize how human beings live.
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This could be a really great thing.
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But even more to the point, this is capitalism 101.
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Capitalism 101 says, I'm going to take AI.
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I'm going to take our investments in AI.
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I'm going to take our newer investments in space travel.
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I'm going to combine them all in one.
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I'm taking the risk.
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My investors are taking the risk.
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Not that Jeff Bezos is going to be filing for bankruptcy, but if this does not work, that is a catastrophic financial loss.
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This is what capitalism is: no risk, no reward.
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And he and his investors are essentially taking all the risk, in tandem perhaps with some taxpayer dollars.
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This is Jeff Bezos' vision for the future, or at least one of them.
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Brilliantly laid out.
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And he is doing well to recognize the quote political forces opposing him, which are nothing more than foreign governments pouring billions of dollars into the United States for individual influencers, podcasters, media networks, and academia to try to transition the United States into some communist utopia in order to remove the United States as a bastion against the spread of communism without firing a single shot.
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