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0:00Yeah, I don't believe in individual legacy. >> Yeah. >> Um, I do Yeah, so like I don't believe in your name being passed on for thousands of generations. I mean, like to prove the point, do you know what your great great great grandfather's name was? Probably not. Right. And so like that's not even that many generations back. And so to have like the ego and the thinking that like you're somehow like your progeny aren't Even if you somehow became king of the world and you did have that, they wouldn't know who you were. You'd just be like another historical figure that they could then trace their bloodline back to. And then if you do the math on how related you are to them, like if you go, you know, 0.5 to the eighth, I mean, you're you're not related. You're just another human. And in that to that degree, then it then relation generalizes to all of humanity. And then you just become a humanitarian. In which case, I am uh pro legacy from that perspective. And I think that the ultimate legacy is education because all of us here are sitting here in a houseful of inventions that other people that we don't know invented and made our lives better. And that I think is like the ultimate legacy for humanity is that we just fall and someone picks up the baton where we left off and carries it.

1:02But like I think the ultimate wasted life is one where you learn lessons and pass it on to no one and force someone to quite truly reinvent the wheel. >> You know, Naval has So the book he recommends the most is the I think it's the beginning of infinity or something like that. Yeah, David Deutsch or whatever. >> it. >> So this dude and it's like a super dense read, but like I haven't completed it. But this guy's like, you know, what is wealth? And wealth is knowledge. To your point you just said it's education, right? Like that is the thing that continues to compound beyond you and me.

1:31It lasts beyond money. And like that is what should matter. Like how do we make people wealthy? We educate them. >> And if you think about the the reverse of that, too. If you had a lot of money and you gave it to someone, how would you guarantee that they lose the money? You have them completely uneducated and completely ignorant. And so there's a there's I think it's Sanskrit. It's a super old like ism, but it says, "If you have a bad son, there's no point in saving money.

1:57If you have a good son, there's no point in saving money. Because if you have the good son, he'll take care of himself. If you have a bad son, he's going to squander everything you have, which basically means that at no point does it ever matter what you accumulate because either you passed on education, in which case they never needed you to begin with, or you passed on no education and they were going to lose everything you had. >> That's so good. But I This is the thing. You look at all the the the wealthy people, they can't help themselves. They have to give it to your kids. And we don't have kids yet, right? But I suspect if we have kids, right? It's just like you probably end up giving it to the kids, right?

2:29>> Well, I think um I really like thinking of like I mean, and I'll probably be different when I have children, but I don't know how different. People will be surprised. Um If like if I wanted to create a human that had certain character traits, I would then think, "Okay, what are the what are the experiences someone has to go through to have that happen?" >> Mhm. >> And I would try to reverse engineer as many of those as I could. And like having uber wealth throughout your entire life and having a guaranteed ease of of eating and living and whatever is a great way to guarantee not guarantee is a great way to increase the likelihood that someone does not turn out good. And so, I wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life after they're 20, with a bunch of people I didn't like. And so, I would rather have them suffer to become the types of people that I'd want to spend the rest of my life with.

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