You know, getting back to a point that, you know, Dr. Hinton raised is, in my view, I don't want to put words in his mouth. You have a fairly corrupt political system. So When Wall street went under, they knew what they were doing. They knew that they were investing in fraudulent mortgages, et cetera. They went under, they caused a massive recession, and they went to the government and said, yeah, we made huge amounts of money. We were crooks, we were dishonest. (52:31–52:39)
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