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This guy Andrew Ross Sorkin talking at the World Economic Forum, where sometimes, I just sometimes, at the WEF, they just say the quiet part loud. You got to love it. You got to love it when they just say the quiet part loud. People, um, of means who are going to travel, and then there's going to be people maybe who are lesser means who might actually be able to use an an Oculus or a Magic Leap or some other kind of device. He legit just said in the future, the rich will continue to travel around the world, and the poor will just sit at home with something strapped to their head. And he's saying this like it's a positive. Uh, to travel to the same place, but from their own, their own couch.
But in many ways, it's actually going to create even more distance between those, the the the the those two people, that that psychologically. And I think that we've experienced this through social media. In many ways, it's brought people closer in certain ways, but actually created this remarkable divide because now, at first, you think he's going to say something like positive, like, oh, he's talking about how inequality is bad. Like, okay, he's he's going to say something positive here. I mean, not not that it's positive, but it's a good thing to call out. He's calling out something that's wrong. Okay, great.
Cuz there's, it's even more visible actually, the divide in certain ways. Oh, I see. He's worried that the poor will find out how [ __ ] rich the [ __ ] rich are. That's what he's saying. It's so funny when you think they're like, oh, thank God he's calling out inequality. Oh, no, he's concerned that the poor that can't travel because it's going to become cost prohibitive. Like, you can't even get in a car and go to a different state because gas is going to be so expensive, or cars are going to be so expensive, or what have you, and and public transit is destroyed. He's saying, but they'll realize how good we have it. And his point was, social media has already done some of that, where the poor realize how goddamn rich the goddamn rich are. But he's saying, oh, soon they'll get to, they'll see on their headsets that they'll strap to their stupid heads, they're going to see where we get to go, and that's going to be bad, cuz we don't want them to know how rich we are.
There there is no [laughter]. There's no bottom to the sleeves of the ultra-rich. Like, you you without showing this clip, you could tell me that this is what the rich are saying, and I would be like, "Yeah, of course they're saying that." Like, we don't, we we want to be rich. We want to travel everywhere in the, and we don't want the poor stuck where they are. That's how the world should be. So, that would not shock me.
But, some people like to point to the World Economic Forum and to clips from the World Economic and say, "That's their secret plan." And I'm like, "It's not their secret plan if they put it on video and aired it for the world to see." [laughter] Like, their secret plans are secret. They're ones that they're filming. Like, TED Talks are largely meant to be visible. So, I'm not saying this isn't awful [ __ ], which is why I played it, is cuz these people are awful. But, the truly secret plans are the secret plans. [laughter] They're not. People love to just show these guys giving a TED TALK AND GO, "THAT'S their secret plan." No, they No, he's he's doing a goddamn TED Talk at the World Economic Forum. Why would they videotape that? No, the secret plans are in emails that we don't get to see.