#AIS: Joe Lonsdale on the problem with higher education
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
All-In Podcast, LLC
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🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This talk was recorded LIVE at the All-In Summit in Miami and included slides. To watch on YouTube, check out our All-In Summit playlist: https://bit.ly/aisytplaylist
0:00 Joe Lonsdale speaks about the problem with higher education and the importance of debate/truth-seeking
10:13 Bestie Q&A with Joe: Why Americans feel victimized, what happened in 1971, getting off the gold standard, school choice, starting UATX
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| 0:00.0 | All right, next up |
| 0:02.8 | Joe Lonstale |
| 0:04.8 | We go Joe Lonstale's gonna come up. He's gonna tee it up for about five or ten minutes in a solo dolo |
| 0:09.8 | He told me he's burning the house down. Well, hello Miami. It's good to be here from Austin for a day. We're a |
| 0:34.6 | Second second best tech city here. It's not too bad. How many people actually are in living Miami? I'm curious |
| 0:41.0 | The crowd you know for that. So everyone's fun in town like me. That's pretty cool |
| 0:44.8 | Well, you know, I'm generally an American optimist, but I want to talk about a lot of stuff |
| 0:50.3 | It's broken right now that we know how to fix but we aren't and you know talking to these guys especially hearing from Elon |
| 0:56.9 | Everyone today. It's just so exciting what our civilization is going towards what it could be doing |
| 1:01.0 | But if you talk to a lot of our smartest friends, you know, you look at guys like dolly or bridge bar or others |
| 1:06.1 | You know, they see America in decline. They see decadence |
| 1:08.4 | They see decay and I think there's a lot of important questions from facing right now |
| 1:11.7 | Why do these happen to a civilization? |
| 1:13.7 | What why when there's so many exciting things going on that we know can make a really great future? |
| 1:18.1 | You know for our kids and grandkids and for human and you why is this stuff breaking and I want to tell you a little story |
| 1:23.9 | I've a policy group in Austin and we have you know |
| 1:26.1 | We follow the homeless population there and we're going along with a middle-aged Mexican gentleman |
| 1:30.9 | Who would you just lost his job and he went into the homeless center is really struggling and he says you know |
| 1:36.1 | I really want to find a job. I want some job training and the and the person working there |
| 1:40.8 | She says you know sir you deserve a home and he said yeah, that's great |
| 1:43.7 | But you know what kind of gets from training and she said you don't need to worry about that you need to worry about getting a home |
| 1:47.4 | But people just like you what you deserve and and and I want to back up about the situation in Austin |
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