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Something I'm spending a lot of time
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thinking about and trying to get some
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politicians on board with and some
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public figures is the following. If you
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want to understand real power and the
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difference between being right and being
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effective, stop watching protests and
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start watching gross domeatic products,
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specifically GDP. Trump does not respond
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to outrage. He responds to markets. And
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that's not cynicism. It's mechanics. I'm
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not talking about a labor strike. This
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isn't unions, pick a lines, or
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collective bargaining. I'm talking about
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something quieter, far more unsettling
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to the system, and that is an economic
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strike. A short-term coordinated
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withdrawal from spending and maybe work.
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>> Well, they did that. They did that in
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Minnesota. They had a day the businesses
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closed for
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>> it can't be a day. A day is annoyance.
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It needs to be a week or a month. And it
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needs to be national.
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>> The US economy is 27 trillion. That's 74
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billion a day. And here's our power,
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Cara. Our economy is 70%
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consumer-driven. Consumers actually have
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more power not in signs or in guns or
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even in their vote right now. They have
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it in the power of the purse. A very
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small change in behavior could have an
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enormous effect. It's not cinematic.
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It's not romantic. It's not going to be
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written up in great history novels. But
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if you could figure out a way to
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basically kick a small number of
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companies related to the tech economy
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that are account for 40% of the S&P
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right now and who are the people he
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cares about. If you cancelled all of
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your streaming media platforms, if you
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canled OpenAI and Anthropic and you said
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I am not upgrading my Apple phone and
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there was a real movement that
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registered and they had to disclose it
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in their earnings calls, this would
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come to an end pronto.
