year versus last year yeah absolutely and you know one thing we don't want to miss some good news yeah up there on the screen u.s businesses actually added NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN jobs in december despite the emergence of omicron and this is from new data by payroll processor adp so the adp report which is a v it's generally a very you know closely watched gauge of private sector growth showed the private payrolls twice as many new workers as analysts had projected so look it's just one data point it is december but this could be you know we've had those dismal jobs months before maybe we're on an upswing i generally begin to think that we are yes omicron may have had some disruption in that so we might see that maybe more in the month of january because some of these crazy restrictions which we're about to talk about are still in place but there is a reason to be hopeful and there is transformation that is happening part of the thing about dynamism is sometimes it's uncomfortable but i think we're getting there let me say because we're kind of wrapping up a little bit of our january NUMBER_TOKENth yes blocks here so to tie it back together part of why i find that the media coverage that is really uh pernicious this direction of rather than talking about these underlying issues these structural issues that both parties are complicit in to various degrees just sort of demonizing people who you know in some cases do things that are genuinely bad or acting like total or committing crimes etc um because the only way out of this is if we have actually more faith and more trust in each other and can have more democracy not less and so if your whole project and this is mattei be hating something we've talked about here a lot but if your whole project is just let me convince you let me play to you let me titillate you let me scare you let me freak you out let me make you angry by convincing you that this half of the population is evil and bad and irredeemable there's no direction forward from that yeah i mean there's no way forward from them the way forward from that is for further sort of police state for you know deep state security state getting stronger and locking down because you got to keep those bad ones in check that or or the other direction is let's make sure that these people can't vote let's like push them outside of the public square let's push them off of twitter let's ban them from youtube let's make sure that they're just sort of like you know pushed to the margins and shut up as much as we possibly can that's that's no way to live that's no way to have a society ultimately so that's the other reason why i find you know the the media coverage that goes in that direction so pernicious um that's why i find it so troubling a lot of the direction that the the conversation out of one six was and some of the tactics that it's been used to justify is because that's the opposite of the direction that we need to go in so the one place where i really see hope and sort of budding democracy and people standing shoulder to shoulder putting their faith in their brothers and sisters in their workplace is with these strikes with the great resignation numbers with this movement um among the workforce and i think that's the place that personally
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