left whatsoever and then you have places like the new york times that are effectively cheering on this direction where they're like oh now we need to go after encrypted apps because there's unfettered conversations remember that term um happening on these encrypted apps as well so it's really disturbing i mean just everything that you do and say can be taken and used and you know sort of weaponized against you personally whether it's to manipulate you or get you to buy a product or whatever it ultimately is so that's what's sort of um really depressing about it but i find yeah yeah but the last thing i'll say is like you know we have this fiction uh in america that the way that these businesses get ahead and the way they succeed is they create a great product and they compete in a marketplace and there the cream rises to the top and so the best products the best companies succeed and what a lot of this actually reveals and this is a stoller point as well is it's not free and open competition it's a lot of like how can i cheat and get away with it how can i rig the marketplace so that i'm the only actor who can possibly succeed and if you talk to um you know ceos who are honest they'll tell you like that is the ceo training it's not how to compete in an open and fair marketplace it's how to rig that marketplace and effectively that sort of competition is for suckers and losers yeah that's true the real winners are the ones who rig it to their advantage and make sure that you know they can that they can dominate the marketplace and effectively establish uh monopoly and so it's no surprise then that when that ethos of cheating and law breaking is rife throughout corporate america it's like the beating heart of corporate america that you have ceo after ceo come before congress and just blatantly lie or dodge or obfuscate yeah no it's all very true i think there's a book the surveillance economy i forget exactly yeah wrote it gets too much of what you're talking about i recommend people go and check it out but this really just shows the conundrum and the absolute just weakness of the us state which is that you have this app which is controlled by the ccp which is now one of the most popular ones in the u.s our president at the time idiotic president tried to do something about it um but did it so foolishly and so terribly that everybody just accepts that this is the case they could lie and before congress or at least de facto admit that they are controlled by a foreign adversary and nobody will do anything about it that is just you know that's america to me the story yeah hey guys thanks so much for watching that's right just as a reminder you can become a premium subscriber today watch the full show completely uncut our reactions to each other's monologues you get to listen to it you get to ask us questions all that good stuff link is right there in the description or at URL_TOKEN best of all great way to say screw you to the mainstream media
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