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I'm ubiquitous. There's a story of Washington Post that I think actually explains some of what's going on here.

The jobless situation in the country is more complex than a lot of people like to talk about.

To be sure, COVID and the payment, the subsidies for unemployment had a lot to do with it early on, but the situation has changed now as those subsidies have been going away.

And real world story here when I was, gosh, when was it?

I guess it was in March. it? It was in March.

I think it was in March.

I went out to Las Vegas for a trip.

And the wait for an Uber was 20 or 30 minutes.

I was coming back from a steakhouse one night with Philip, who was with me on this trip.

And our Uber driver, it took, I mean, 20 minutes waiting for an Uber at the steakhouse.

And we got in the car and started having a conversation with the guy.

It was funny.

Commented on why, what was going on in Las Vegas at the time that it was hard to get

an Uber driver.

And he said, nothing, nothing is going on.

And there really, there weren't any major sporting events.

There was one like boxing match, I think, but that was about it.

He said the problem was that people were getting their unemployment checks and not

working, not driving Uber said, you would think that they would want to drive Uber to make

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