I had five economists work on a paper. It's a whole chapter in here, chapter three. And we talked about what would happen in society if we took on obesity. Turns out, Single greatest thing you could do to lower the debt of the United States, produce growth, family formation, all those things. And we were coming up with 5 trillion, 7 trillion. We're right now doing the math, updating that chapter. Turns out I'm not committing to it because we still have weeks of math to do. (28:52–29:00)
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