00:00We're going to be encouraged when this is all over to think it was just a dream.
00:03You know, we had this very strange thing. It has nothing to do with reality.
00:07Now we're waking up and going back to normal. But actually, no, normal was the dream.
00:12This was, this is reality. You know, we realize what people are really taking care of us,
00:16what we are, as human beings, as fragile, fragile, biological entities,
00:21who will die unless we take care of each other. You know, what an economy is,
00:28is the way that we take care of each other, the way that we keep each other alive.
00:32And we do that by caring for each other and caring for our environment. And if we don't do that,
00:36we're in big trouble very fast. So I think a lot of things can no longer be taken for granted.
00:42Whereas, you know, the people who are really supposed to be producing value,
00:45I mean, there's all these concepts of production value,
00:48really, you need to be reexamined, you know, real value is that which keeps us alive.
01:19Our compensation is insane. Our standards are insane. There really seems to be this idea
01:35that people who are putting their lives on the line, literally putting their lives on the line,
01:41for the sake of all of us, shouldn't be compensated
01:46with money, because they're not doing it for money. Whereas people who are just doing it
01:50for money, should get lots of money. It's quite crazy. And I hope that we will stop this,
01:58because in a way, you could say we've just received the world's greatest wake up call.
02:15A lot of the people wrote to me, but they're both jobs are doing things like,
02:30you know, preparing the cartoons on the PowerPoints, or, you know,
02:33for the PowerPoint presentations that like executives show in their, you know, meetings
02:39with each other, which are like these medieval tournaments where they all sort of show off and
02:42do battle or, you know, writing for the in house magazines with every single corporation has to
02:48have their own journal where they talk about how amazing the this or that executive is,
02:54because it's very gratifying if you're an executive to have a whole maplossi magazine
02:58where they talk about you and the stuff that happened in real life. So you just hire people
03:01to do it. So we're actually destroying the planet to feed the egos of narcissistic individuals.
03:08You think about all the people who have to drive to work to sit there so he can say,
03:12I have 300 people working under me, you know, doing all the think about the carbon that is
03:17heating those buildings that are put up the infrastructure that surrounds these gigantic
03:21eco projects. And that's destroying our planet in the most literal sense. So I think we have
03:30a unique opportunity to realize just how silly all that stuff is and just cut it out.
03:38So many people I know are when they're working from home,
03:49find this a situation where they can, it's almost impossible to not deny how much they actually do.
03:55I refer to works in insurance, you know, he, I asked him, Okay, so how much do you really work
04:01a day? It's about 15 minutes. You know, he says, Well, there's two half hour meetings,
04:06they're basically bullshit, but I kind of have to do it to show the flag. And I still have to do
04:10that. But you know, I basically worked an hour a week. I mean, the hour he does a week is something
04:17worth doing. But it's insane to have people like drive to work or take public transport to work,
04:23sit there in a heated building, and then come back, just so that his boss can sit there and
04:30say, look at my empire, you know, which is basically what's going on. We need to rethink
04:34what an economy is to focus on what's really important to us. And that would mean not going
04:42back to sleep. Can we do that? I don't know. There's going to be huge pressure on us to get
04:49back to work that work is should be a value in itself, regardless of what that work does. And
04:54there needs to be a movement to resist that, to take the knowledge that we now have of what reality
05:00is really like and and and save ourselves from the incredible destructive path that our species
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