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I am Karen Hunter.

And you ever think about why people do the things they do?

You know, I think it's nice to receive the goodness and not question it.

But I also think it's important for us to understand that a lot of times people are motivated by other, maybe even some nefarious reasons to do the good that they're doing.

I was having this conversation with one of my producers, Tremel.

You guys know she's been on this show a lot.

And she was telling me about an anthropology class that she took and somehow tied it to Melinda Gates.

Listen, I didn't know where she was going, but stay tuned.

So every day before I actually go on the air, I spent a couple of hours, sometimes three hours, kind of going over stories of the day.

CNBC will be on, looking at the stocks and all of this.

And I'm always prepping with Tremau going over the stories of the day.

We go back and forth because, you know, it's important to have a well-thought-out view of things.

This is not, we don't take it by the seat of our pants.

So on this particular day, we were getting prepped for the show and you brought up a class,

an anthropology class. I don't know why you got.

Don't know. I zone out sometime. And so I zoned out to an anthropology class that I had in

college. And the professor's name was Rudy. That was her

last name, wonderful, brilliant, brilliant professor. And so we were talking about ancient and,

you know, modern agrarian society, semi-modern, like, you know, just them being poor. And these societies were poor, but they did have land

and they could farm.

So with farm comes intense labor.

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