In any case, the point is, to make the right thing lucrative and the wrong thing not lucrative and I think this fourth estate principle that has deep roots in democracy is kind of how need to legislate income, I'm not at that end of the political spectrum.
problem. I don't know. Do we want to legislate away from advertising? There's actually an interesting piece on NPR this morning that's about just that. It's a tricky one. We have people who spend their lives watching advertising in Fox News, and they believe everything they see. How do you put some other message in there?
David Wessel: Yes, they should. Right? But, that's one of the things that's kind of frustrating about this. They were sophisticated people. Q And you can't really legislate success, right?
David Wessel: Yes, they should. Right? But, that's one of the things that's kind of frustrating about this. They were sophisticated people. You can't say -- David Wessel: You cannot legislate success.
to be captured by the market, even at the price of great inefficiency, is going to lead to increasing push back if they start to succeed. Expect to see attempts, to see them legislated out of business within a year or two. I have no inside knowledge about this. This is just a prediction of about the kinds of forces we have seen at work in other industries. So, the lesson here, I think, is given this cognitive surplus and given that we can take this end of the range as a basically solved
And you can cut off all your cookies. Don't regulate it. There's no reason to legislate that.
lemme not sound like I'm just rejecting it out of hand, I understand the fears of competing with China and I understand the fears of people who are worried that their jobs are gonna be exported to China. The trouble here is that we're trying to legislate via the rear view mirror. We're trying to save 20th century manufacturing jobs instead of worrying about developing 21st century jobs. The fact is that China is stealing our bacon in the clean energy race. China is already receiving twice as much venture capital money in clean energy
Another shepherd from the Laius household, he says, whom someone had told to get rid of a child, gave the baby to him. And the conventions of usage are tacit, that is they are not legislated by a governing body, say like the Rules Committee of Major League Baseball.
And that's what I think makes it so confounding. That's what makes it difficult to talk about, to regulate, to protest, to argue over, to defend, to legislate , and on and on. We have to make it visible first.
OK. I'm just going to read a little bit. Including, said Marcus, obligations to tell others how they should be living, to legislate morals for them?
Now, if you live in a modern, secular democracy, that's just likely to happen, but that's just one of 1,000 things. For years, centuries, governments often would be Christian governments-- have legislated in favor of, say, slavery, or in favor of not giving women the vote, or whatever.
So for them the most important thing is Pachamama, because all life comes from that. And so the right to life and to exist, vital functions of the ecosystem, all of that is legislated . Now, they're not perfect in implementing it, but they do have this new framework that they're saying.