Ep. 695 - I think we've put far too many of our eggs in the wrong basket

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

I've been feeling this way. As taxpayers and citizens of this country, we are right to demand that this government - on the local, state, and federal level, do right by us. No telling where we'd be if we didn't fight and force our government to do the right thing.

But I've grown to think that far too much of our energy and attention is spent making demands of the government. I'm not saying we stop making those demands or stop fighting for people that actually care about us being in elected office. Those are worthy fights.

But we MUST MUST MUST spend more of our time, energy, intellect, skills, and resources on building our own systems, structures, strategies, and institutions - that we own and control.

Can you imagine what we could build and accomplish if HALF of all of us dedicated our lives to building and funding our own solutions?

That's what I want to see and work on for the rest of my life.

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0:00.0	Fancy new office, shiny new conference room,
0:02.5	the latest in stand-up desks and executive snacks.
0:05.2	This is no time for cutting corners.
0:06.9	Now let's discuss your internet.
0:08.6	Vobos is London's only dedicated fiber network
0:11.3	providing 10 gigas standard
0:13.1	for the businesses committed to investing in their future.
0:16.1	Vobos, the business fiber network built by Vobos for London.
0:20.6	I have one main point that I wanna make today.
0:24.1	And in some ways, it's controversial and shouldn't be.
0:29.1	And I will preface what I'm about to say with this.
0:33.3	What I'm about to say is a simplification
0:37.4	of the problems that we face
0:39.7	and a simplification of the strategies
0:41.7	that we have to solve those problems.
0:44.7	But for the sake of an illustration,
0:48.4	I wanna say that we have put way too many of our eggs
0:53.4	in the basket of demanding that the government do right by us.
0:59.4	Now we deserve, we are taxpayers,
1:02.9	we are citizens, we deserve for the government
1:06.2	to do right by us.
1:08.0	But so much of our energy, effort, time, skill,
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