A lot of the people, young people, a lot of the reason young people don't feel any hope is that they see the democracy as rigged. They don't see that they have any voice. And so If we were to get billionaire and corporate money out of politics, I think it would cause a lot more people to come back into the enterprise. Second, I think there's really interesting historical precedent for this country deciding to care more about the common good. So we had this era 100 years ago called the Gilded Age that looked a lot like this era. (52:55–53:06)
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