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if you look at the real innovation of the American economy it's been in the world of software if you look at where
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the economy has been most stagnant it's been in basically the heavily regulated parts of the economy which is where 90%
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of the people that I represent in the Senate and 80% of the people that I hope to represent as their vice president
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actually make their living run their business and go to work every single day when I think about tech one of the
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things I'd like us to do is broaden the aperture a little bit and think about innovation not just in software but
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innovation in transportation and logistics and innovation uh in energy and the whole suite of things because
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unless our economy is actually technologically innovative then the stagnant economy is is fundamentally
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like the worst thing and I think a lot of actually America's pathologies right now stem from the fact that we feel like
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we live in a very zero sum country because in some ways we do right when when when the the economy is growing
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four five 6% a year then Democrats can kind of get what they want republicans kind can kind of get what they want and
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it all makes sense if the economy is growing between zero and 1% a year then I think it makes the whole society and
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our political system a much much more insane and I think it's kind of a subtext of what's been going on in this
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country for the last 30