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Well, Steve Moore, the brilliant economist, you should get his book, too, Govzilla, big bestseller, Govzilla, follow him on Twitter, and he runs the committee to unleash prosperity.

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Steve Moore, how you doing?

Hey, Mark, it was good to see you last night at our dinner with Fred Smith, the CEO FedEx,

who gave us some strong words of wisdom.

And so I'm doing well.

I don't know if the economy is doing so well, but I'm doing just five.

You know, Fred Smith is a genius, a brilliant guy, but he was telling us all kinds of things.

One is obviously they use some robotics to unload the trucks and all that, he said, but

a robot can't feel, can't tell

whether he's holding an egg or a brick. But he said they've got the technology. You're working

to where the robot will be able to feel and do all this stuff. What is that going to mean for the

future when you got that kind of robot army? What's going to do to productivity? Well, this was

one of the things that he talked about that I thought was kind of

disturbing when he was talking about, you know, he's been in, in, uh, he started FedEx, what, 40, 50 years

ago. And so he's, he's been ahead of that company for decades. He was the one of the great

entrepreneurs of all time. Uh, What did he say? His like

the hundreds of thousands of employees and, oh no, he said 700,000 employees. Yeah. And something like

$100 billion in revenues. It's one of the most successful companies ever. And one of the things

he said was, you know, he's seeing a decline in productivity of workers today because they're just not, they're showing up not ready for the job.

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