1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: Gooday, Welcome to the show, Welcome to better than yesterday, 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: making a better of every episode since twenty thirteen. My 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: name was Osha Ginsburg. I'm glad you're here. Thank you 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: so much for being a part of the show. Something 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: started in twenty twenty. I did an episode twenty ide 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: Years for twenty twenty and I've been doing it every 7 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: year since. In twenty twenty one, it became a very 8 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 1: very long episode. It started to become twenty two Ideas 9 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: for twenty twenty two, started to split into different episodes, 10 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: and now here we are twenty five Ideas for twenty 11 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: twenty five, an annual podcast offering. If you never listened 12 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: to the show before, Hi, welcome. This won't make a 13 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 1: lot of sense to check out the back catalog, but 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: I'm glad you made it. Why do I make this show? 15 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: Why do I make this particular thing every year? Because 16 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: for me, painting out a vision of possibility is way 17 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: more useful than painting out a vision of fear. And 18 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: in Australia at least, there's an election on the way, 19 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: and I figured, well, you know, I'll do my bit 20 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: if I can put a bit out into the world. 21 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 1: Ideas that are interesting that people can hear around election 22 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: times or can hear in a community that I don't know, 23 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: pushes us forward and forward together. So let's begin twenty 24 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: five ideas for twenty twenty five. Number one, free early 25 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: childhood education from six months to sixty years. Now I 26 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: pay for childcare, I know what it costs. Childcare is 27 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 1: freaking expansive. But what is it costing us not helping 28 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: everyone in our community get access to childcare? Well, the 29 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: evidence from countries where that happens is robust that state 30 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: provided childcare pays off big time. No, it is not cheap, 31 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: as I just mentioned, but investing in state funded childcare 32 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: pays huge dividends, not just for families but for the 33 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: entire economy. For the entire community, you get a more 34 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: people working, especially women, because when childcare is more affordable, 35 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: more parents, particularly mums, can get back into the workforce. 36 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: In Nordic countries, over seventy five percent of women are working, 37 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: and that compares to about sixty percent in places like 38 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: the US. In Quebec, which is Canada, with the French part, 39 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: they rolled out subsidized childcare and kaboom, maternal employment jumped 40 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: by three to four percent, the tax revenue from all 41 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: of those working mums who are now back in the 42 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: workforce very nearly covered the cost of the program. It 43 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,519 Speaker 1: nearly broke even which is incredible. It's also a huge 44 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: boost of the economy and taxation revenue because more people 45 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: working doesn't just mean families being happier, it also fuels 46 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 1: the economy, higher productivity, more employment. There's more taxes coming 47 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: in that can help fund these programs like it did 48 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: in Quebec. It's got better outcomes for the kids because 49 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: higher quality childcare. It's not babysitting, it's not nannying, it's 50 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 1: childhood education. It's set up these kids for life. And 51 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: the research has shown that children's cognitive, emotional, and social skills, 52 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: especially those from lower income cohorts of our community, really 53 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: is incredibly beneficial. There's even research to show that for 54 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: every dollar spent on early childhood programs, the returns can 55 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: be between seven to ten times that cost. That is 56 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: a huge return on investment. And there's a lot of 57 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: talk about diversities last ten years, and so for me, 58 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: it's all that the real diversity when you look at 59 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: for me personally, is socioeconomic and class diversity. And state 60 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: provided childcare. It truly is. It's a great equalizer. It 61 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: helps kids from any kind of background start at a 62 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: level playing field and that really narrows the gap in 63 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: education and income outcomes further down the track. And by 64 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: giving every kid a strong start, it doesn't mean that 65 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: no one's left behind, but a lot less are left 66 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: behind going forward. And the other thing about childcare that 67 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: if it was state sponsored, it means with more parents working, 68 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: families relying on social assistance. And the kicker is that 69 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: for kids that get early education, they are way more 70 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: likely to become economically independent as adults, which is brilliant. 71 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: There's also the health outcomes, the mental health benefits, for 72 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,679 Speaker 1: example for mums, particularly having access to quality childcare reduces stress, 73 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: improves overall wellbeing. Happier mum, happier dad, happier kids. Brilliant. 74 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: Twenty five ideas for twenty twenty five idea at number two. 75 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: As my man Briggs always tells me, it's a good 76 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: idea now, it'll be a good idea a year from now. 77 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: This is an idea I've floated before. However, considering the 78 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: current news in the space, it does bear repeating. With 79 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: a slight twist, lock the content available on any device 80 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: to the age of the user, push the content filtering 81 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: into the device, and mandate that websites either push a 82 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: pixel with the content data, either the phone to pass 83 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: a verification test, or that the content will be blocked. 84 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: For example, you've seen shit like this. I've seen shit 85 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: like this. There's a video of some person actually fucking 86 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 1: dying in an industrial accident, or some war porn or 87 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: something just horrifying, and that video delivers to device with 88 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 1: a rating on the pixel saying, hey, you're about to 89 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: watch a human being with family and friends and a 90 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,119 Speaker 1: mother and a father actually die. But if the phone 91 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: is locked to the age of the kid, it simply 92 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: won't play. It won't prove you, it won't anything. And 93 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: the same could be said for sexual content. You publish 94 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: the video or the image with that pixel with that watermark, 95 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: and unless the phone sees that watermark, it just won't 96 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: display the content. When you give the device to the kid, 97 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 1: as you're setting it up, you put the date of 98 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: birth of the kid into the device. Now, none of 99 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,359 Speaker 1: this is going to stop that little fuckhead with his 100 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: brother's phone in the back of a bus showing your kid, 101 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: a Chinese man losing an arm, and a horrible farming 102 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: accident as this kid in the back goes and cackles 103 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: with glee watching your child being scarred for life. But 104 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: it's a start, So twenty five ideas for twenty twenty 105 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: five Idea number three, bring local communities sit together by 106 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 1: making them work for it. Eliminate local council park maintenance 107 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 1: and instigate a community based roster system in exchange for 108 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: either a discount on your council rates or waiving the 109 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: rates altogether. You or me, I know I would love 110 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: to do this. Go down to the park on a 111 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: weekend and you do some park maintenance in a time 112 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 1: of great polarization and disparity in our community with our neighbors, 113 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: getting people together, men and women working on making a 114 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: focal point of their community more beautiful. Meeting every week 115 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: a few hours on a weekend morning training provided led 116 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: by a four man, four lady, making sure that everyone's safe. 117 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: You know, you learn a bit about horticulture, but it's 118 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: about more than that. It's about bringing a sense of belonging, 119 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: a sense of togetherness, a sense of inclusion. When strangers 120 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: come together to care for public spaces like planning a 121 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: community garden or restore a park, or maintaining urban greenery, 122 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: or something that benefits ripple through both communities. The research 123 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: is huge on this, for example, when it comes to 124 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: urban spaces and projects that restore urban spaces. The research 125 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: has shown that it breakdown social barriers and creates meaningful 126 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: connection between people or otherwise strangers. In the eighties in 127 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: New York, there was a thing called the Green Guerrillas 128 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: and it really led the transformation of derelict lots into 129 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: community gardens, particularly on the Lower East Side. Doesn't look 130 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: like that anymore, but what it did is it brought 131 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: together residents from very diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds who 132 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: previously felt quite disconnected. Cornell University in the States did 133 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: some research that over eighty percent of participants who did 134 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: this reported new relationships with neighbors through their involvement. There's 135 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: also research that shows this improves mental health and social 136 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: connection in the neighborhood, measurable psychological benefits reducing loneliness, reducing stress, 137 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: improving well being. In Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society they 138 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: had Similarly, they had a vacant lot program in the 139 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: two thousands, there was twelve thousand empty lots, and there 140 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: was a study which found significant decreases in depression of 141 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: forty two percent decrease in depression and a fifty one 142 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: percent decrease of feelings of isolation among people who lived 143 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: near those lots. But it's beyond that. It is once 144 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: you've built those connections and built those webs, what it 145 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: does is it strengthens the resilience of the community. Strangers 146 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 1: who collaborate on projects, they develop relationships that are crucial 147 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 1: when it comes to emergencies. After Hurricane Katrina in two 148 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: thousand and five, there were neighborhoods in New Orleans which 149 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: had strong social ties which were often built through greening 150 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: initiatives like shared guards, the kind of stuff we're talking about. 151 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: Those people were far better able to organize recovery efforts 152 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: for people that were having a difficult time. That also 153 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: happened in Japan following the twenty eleven earthquake, the one 154 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: that hit the Fukushima reactor. Residents who would work together 155 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:01,239 Speaker 1: on park restoration projects, they were able to mobilize incredibly 156 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: quickly to provide food and shelter and emotional support to 157 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,839 Speaker 1: each other. It is the collaboration in the calm time 158 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: that builds the trust and togetherness that we need in 159 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: the chaotic time. And that is absolutely incredible. Plus, you know, 160 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: a feeling a pride, a feeling of ownership, a feeling 161 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: of protection, a feeling over hell, and that's my park. 162 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: What do you drinking your gooon in that park for? 163 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: What do you burning down the toilet block for? Not 164 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: that that ever happened in my history. I don't believe 165 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: I say that out loud. So the bottom line is, 166 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: it's not just pruning the yard. It's not just making 167 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: sure that aga panthers come up okay. Strangers that come 168 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: together helps barriers between them and the inside community really 169 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: break down. It improves mental health of a community. Neighborhoods 170 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: become more connected and more resilient. It's not just about, 171 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: you know, a good looking place to kick a footy around. 172 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: Is about stronger and healthier people who see their community 173 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: their place as their place. So twenty five ideas for 174 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty Number four, hold on your hats. If you 175 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: are a company which derives profit from a product which 176 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: has proven to be addictive, you contribute a mandated and 177 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: significant portion of your profits into a fund which has 178 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: the sole purpose to treat people who have become addicted 179 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: to your product. If you're making money off the altered 180 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: psychological state of the product, which occurs way more often 181 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: than the promise of the product. For example, yes, with gambling, 182 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: you might indeed make a five thousand dollars payout on 183 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: a poker machine or whatever, which is a huge benefit. 184 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 1: That's the promise of the product, But the actual odds 185 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: of that happening, the actual odds of winning five k 186 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: on a poker machine are around three million to one. 187 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: So you're not selling the five thousand dollar win. You're 188 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: selling the feeling that you might. All right, that's what 189 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: you're selling. If that is your product, you get to 190 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: contribute to this fund. So just so you get an 191 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: idea of how these things are and what the product 192 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: they're actually selling is. It's not the win. Here are 193 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: things that are more likely than winning five thousand dollars 194 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,839 Speaker 1: on a Perker machine. You are one hundred and ninety 195 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: six times more likely to be struck by lightning in 196 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: your lifetime than to win five thousand dollars on a 197 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: Perker machine. I love this one. If you have trained 198 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: and you know, if you're in the right age group, 199 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 1: you are four point five times more likely to win 200 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: an Olympic medal than to win five thousand dollars on 201 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: a poker machine. And you are a staggering three hundred 202 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: thousand times more likely to be injured by a toilet 203 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: than to win five thousand dollars on a Perker machine. 204 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: Last year, Australians lost thirty two billion dollars gambling in 205 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 1: a cost of a living crisis. That is a lot 206 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: of gas bills, power bills, food bills, school fees, clothes, 207 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: you name it that is not going to the families 208 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: that need it. Now. Of that thirty two billion dollars, 209 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: twenty percent of the people who gamble in Australia represent 210 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: around eighty percent of the money that is waged. So 211 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: those twenty percent of people lost twenty five billion dollars. 212 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: So not everybody's got a problem, all right. The other 213 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,079 Speaker 1: eighty percent, they don't have the problem really, But those 214 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: people that do have a problem have a huge problem. 215 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: When I wear fridge and it doesn't work, there's a 216 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: burden on the manufacturer of the people I bought it 217 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: from to repair it or replace it. That percentage of 218 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 1: the expense of how many times that's going to happen 219 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: is worked into the overall pricing. The real business model 220 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: with businesses that profit from addiction think of the contribution 221 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 1: to addiction treatment as an incentive to not have their 222 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: customers ruin their lives. And this has been tried before. 223 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 1: The gambling industry argued there one point nine billion dollars 224 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: in tax already paid for such things. But the social 225 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: license to allow profit from addiction has got to stop. 226 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: And incentives for companies which explode the vulnerable, the most 227 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: vulnerable people in our community, which encourage them to act ethically, 228 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: they need to work. All right, We're going to have 229 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: to stop pretending. We're going to have to stop pretending 230 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: that it can happen. Because mark my words, in relation 231 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 1: to drinking, it has drink responsibly written on the can. 232 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: Right when I was drinking, I would hold the can 233 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:19,719 Speaker 1: up and go like literally, I'll be thinking, like, well, 234 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: I am drinking responsibly. I've taken it out of the 235 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: ski and it is getting warm. This is a responsible 236 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: thing to do. Right now. By the time you hear 237 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: gamble responsibly, it's too late, man, it is way too late. 238 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: So if you're making profit from exploiting that in people, 239 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, you're going to have to take some 240 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: ownership of that. So last one for today, twenty five 241 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: o yars to twenty twenty five. Number five invest in 242 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: the safety standards required to create street level energy generation 243 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: and storage and turn every state primary school and high 244 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: school into a community power plant. I never understand why 245 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: an electron that comes one way down power line to 246 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: my house is worth sixty something since at the right 247 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: peak hour of day. But an electron from our solar 248 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: panels an electron with the same amount of utility, an 249 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: electron that's going to charge my phone, or charge my 250 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: car or make my hot plate work, that's exactly the 251 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: same thing, the same amount of utility value. The electron 252 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: going the other way is worth so little, like seven 253 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: cents or whatever, nine cents something. It's tiny. The argument 254 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: from energy companies in Australia about why their feed in 255 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: tarifs for solar are so low is that, oh, we've 256 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: got the we've got all the poles and wires to maintain. Okay, 257 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: So don't get electrical engineers to create safety standards which 258 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: would allow local primary schools and local high schools which 259 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: have heaps of roof space. Heaps of roof space as 260 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: well as space for big battery storage I mean big 261 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: community battery storage or kinetic storage allow those schools to 262 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: then power the local community. If we need to rewire 263 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: the street, we work that into the cost of installation. 264 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: It could run a couple of ways. It could run 265 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: as a not for profit with the energy sold to 266 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: consumers that are rate which could yes pay off the 267 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: installation of maintenance costs, but also kick some back to 268 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: the education system itself if the government is reluctant to 269 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: pay for it. Imagine if you could invest mom and 270 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: dad money, a few k from your super or something 271 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: so not like I'm investing a million bucks in this, 272 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: but like I've got three grand, I'll put three grand 273 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: over here. Imagine if you could invest in a power 274 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: plant rather than putting the panels on your own roof. 275 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, say you're in the shadow most of 276 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: the time, or from where your house is, or you're 277 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: not able to get it done. It's not only a 278 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: way to get your energy for free or near free. 279 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: Once your investment has paid off, you're in the black 280 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: for as long as that school stays standing, and yeah, 281 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: schools do close down. That's a pretty rare occurrence in 282 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: a big city. We have all a tech to make 283 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: this work. But if we have those safety standards, the 284 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: electrical safety standards, that will get that kind of power, 285 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: that kind of load that short distance, so less than 286 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: a k right around a school, or maybe two k's 287 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: from a school or a high school. If we have 288 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: that a we've become more resilient as well. Like when 289 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: there's big natural disasters and stuff, not every single person's affected, right, 290 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: we have isolated generation, which would be amazing. Look, there's 291 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: twenty more to come. All right, that's the first lot. 292 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: There's twenty more on the way. If you need the more, 293 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: you know what, I might put them up on the substack. 294 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: I'll put them and I'll put it for paid subscribers only, 295 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: all right, So if you want them all, I put 296 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: them there. Ochigainsberg got substack dot com. If not, well 297 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: you can come back next week and you'll get the 298 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: next five. Whatever you do in this time of year, 299 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: you might even be listening to this on the day 300 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: it come out. You might be listening to all these 301 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: in the rows you drive somewhere to somewhere else. Whatever 302 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: you're doing this time of year. There's a lot of 303 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: stress usually this time of year. So I'm covered in 304 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: next month, all right, just so you know you're not alone. 305 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: It be safe this time of year, Be kind to yourself, 306 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: put on some sunscreen or rug up depending on where 307 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: you're listening, and I'll see you next week.