March 1, 2024

If you could cancel one thing? | One good question

If you could cancel one thing? | One good question

Today question sets up a bit of an “addition by subtraction” situation. If you could eliminate one thing from the world, in order to improve a lot of other things, what would it be? We took some creative swings at this one.

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Today question sets up a bit of an “addition by subtraction” situation. If you could eliminate one thing from the world, in order to improve a lot of other things, what would it be? We took some creative swings at this one.

Our own Sebastian Brambila (@sebastian_brambila), and Matt Ogihara (@matt_ogi), joined us for this one.

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Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to One
Good Question. Our Friday episode. We

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got matt Ogie in the house and
step us on a mic, and today

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Jim's got the question for us.
Every Wednesday Friday, new episode Good Company

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Discord dot com. If you want
to get involved with the community and ask

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us questions that may be featured on
this episode. So this I'm gonna leave

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it open to interpretation, to your
own interpretation of how you want to do

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this. However, my question is
if you could cancel one thing, cancel

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one thing, just take it off
the board. Already got it, what

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would it be? I already got
it. I'm canceling calories. Oh shit,

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I'm eating pizza all day every day
and I'm still gonna be sexy beer

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pizza, chick wings. But then, well that is an environment. Then

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if everyone can calories the way,
is it just for him? I don't

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know, have a might have a
good I think I think it's for the

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world. Well mine is definitely for
not just me, so going all right,

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So mine's for the world too,
So think about think about all the

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benefits. Right health health problems are
heading down because we're all fit plumbing.

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We don't need it. Square footage
of my house just triples. We don't

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need a toilet. Wait, because
we're not. I mean, you're shipping

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out things you don't need, but
like so, or maybe it doubles.

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Maybe it's maybe you don't ship I
don't know, but it's my world,

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dude. We're not shitting. The
calories aren't counting. We're eating. We're

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eating air that tastes yummy. Okay, I have it's got no calories.

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Yeah, it could be nothing.
Yeah, then if you're just eating now,

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we got way more things that we
got to produce to feed people,

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but then we don't need the No, you could eat anything bad for you,

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gonna be bad for you. But
then all the gundens stuff that are

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producing like gases and stuff like that. Then you're like, oh my god,

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no way, you just went there. Well I was thinking like worldwide.

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Yeah no, yeah, you went
on some crazy bullshit that don't matter.

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That's not happening because it would be
the same. Could be no,

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for sure, could be, could
not be. You can eat bread if

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you want, yeah, like anything. I'm just seeing pizza all day.

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Spread ramification yeah this one, yeah, bullet, Yeah, it could trickle

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many ways. The butterfly flex real
but no calories would be wonderful that it's

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give me sea bass. It's gonna
be hard to beat. Literally, I

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want to see a how like canceling
cars, Like what that would do?

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No, I like that just cars, just cars. I want to see

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if we can make like a flying
like cars like walking and biking. Uh.

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We talked about it briefly and I
re gooogled it. Uh. There

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is like some group of like billionaires
trying to make a world or making a

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city. Uh. And I think
they even plotted the land and ship and

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it's costing whatever to three billion dollars
and they're gonna build it. And one

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of their main rules is it's a
pedestrian and bike. I think that's sick,

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interesting, very interesting. Yeah,
the air should be good, right,

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and even traffic and like death's by
car like drinking accidents, Like there

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is a lot of benefit of that, obviously, there's a lot of negative,

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right, like yeah, living far
away from family. Yeah, other

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ship, but if you designed the
city for that, there still garages on

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the outside of the city and people
walk or bike to them and then get

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in their cars or yeah maybe maybe
Yeah, public transport, public transports better

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Europe, right, like fucking the
Netherlands is supposed to be all like that

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and ship and even the top part
of downtown Sack that they're building is supposed

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to be very pedestrian based that they
don't want a lot of driving in the

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in the train. Uh yeah,
yeah, yeah, the cities at least

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even if you go to Farmland,
you got to get out there. Train

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really to the rural rule. Yeah, they take you out, you got

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to. But then you get off
and you got like ten miles walk or

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bike. You ain't walking. There's
someone there to pick up a carriage?

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Carriage? Is this the last samurai? Someone was like, pretty right,

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the dragon out there. I think
there's cars and sugun. Yeah you talking

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about I haven't, but I'm going
to. You just gonna ride a big

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fucking white beast. That so you
took away cars, but then you just

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said flying cars. He's thinking of
future. Yeah yeah, I'm thinking like,

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so you're thinking we took away complain
maybe jet packs jet so you cat

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to like extend us farther in the
future. I just want to see what

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woul happen. Think cars were limiting
us. I think they are too Okay,

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we've become complacent with things are gonna
get crazy. Man. You've seen

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some of the robot dogs. Robot
dogs already in the military, all wars

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drones. I don't know what happened
with that Iron Man suit that was going

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around, but there's like a legit
Iron Man suit going around. You never

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saw that. Yeah, dudes were
cruising bro the first one sketch, but

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then do start to cruise. Oh
we're gonna die? No, well,

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no robots fighting robots? All right? What are you? What is he?

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Boys? Takeaway? Man? What
I was saying social media rightly healthy

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too. I think it just benefit
everybody. I think a lot of time

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gets wasted. Brian rot type beat
on that. Yeah, it's easy to

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get sucked in. I'm not perfect. I get sucked in every once in

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a while and you're like, oh
fuck. The next thing, you know,

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you were on shorts. You're not
perfect. No, I'm saying,

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like, no way, motherfucker and
his use of social media, it's not

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perfect. Everywhere else you are bucco
in your little cute dose. He didn't

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even say that cut I see you
got cute? Does you ain't see my

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dogs? Yeah? Back to the
statement, Yeah, caught up in this

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wipe, and so I was like, oh, what if we removed it,

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how much more productive time can other
people? Because some people are real

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bad. I think it's way worse
than that. I think productivity is whatever.

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I think it's the echo chambers.
Yeah, the the what you're consuming

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has zero value. Ninety percent of
it has zero value because I think there's

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a lot of benefits obviously, but
the negatives seem to be much louder than

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the benefits. Now. Yeah,
so I'll see what would that do?

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Yeah, bring us back to where
me and Jim were born, back to

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the eighties and nineties. It's new
for y'all, but pre social media era.

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Because I saw cryptos obviously pumping right
now, and so people were whipping

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out articles over the last three years
of people talking shit on bitcoin to back

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up their argument. And then,
uh, I think it was my homie

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Actually he posted a bunch of newspaper
clips from the year two thousand, I

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believe, on the Internet, and
the headlines were the exact same as the

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last three on bitcoin, like just
a fad, probably not going anywhere,

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only for the niches, only for
the whatever. So that was really interesting.

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But it's true. I mean,
like I was very conscious and quote

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unquote old when the Internet started to
become the norm. Yeah, you know,

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Jim obviously lived it, lived it, but I was, I was.

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I was in like high school,
you know, like it wasn't like

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the norm. Yeah, I had
a lot of friends without computers. Yeah,

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no, for sure, just taking
away all right, So mine,

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I'm not going to you know,
remove social media, but I think I

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could improve social media and a lot
of other things in society if we And

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I originally thought, uh, cancel
gurus, just cancel all gurus, but

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I think that what I really want
to cancel is people's need for gurus,

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Like charge your own path, don't
follow other people especially, don't follow them

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slavishly, and so many people do. And yeah, almost even heroes too.

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Yeah, like we talked about the
last episode the Good Versus Bad.

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Yeah, you always put your hero
on a pedestal. So if we're like

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a Wizard of Oz, you just
take away the take away the wizard,

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yeah, or the shade. Yeah, so you saw the wizards just a

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little white man speaking into a megaphone. Yeah, Okayeah, that's one of

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those things that just it super annoys
me because people hook line and sinker things

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because they just they're not rooted in
their own lives enough to not you know,

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get dragged into some stupid thing that
they end up believing the it isn't

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true. But then I only believe
it because their gur guru of whatever kind.

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And they were around before, but
the Internet definitely made them, yeah,

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more popular than much more because you'd
have to like find one before,

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you have to go on your way
where now they find you, whether you

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want to or not, a guru
is gonna pop up on your page.

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And and people who are gurus are
often I think, very unjustly enriched by

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their guru nous. You know,
they they make they make their money off

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of convincing other people to listen to
them. By my program, Well,

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there's science, I mean there's pure
science on what's like the easiest ship to

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sell. It's like look better,
get richer, or become an expert in

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some ship, you know, and
so like then the gurus use those three

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to sell you those three that's true. Yeah, that's straight marketing and sales

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fact. All right, damn close
it out since your intro was so damn

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good. Yeah, finish this off
well, just just yeah, well,

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I mean well, you sign yourself
out at least Instagram at matt Ogi,

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I g at Sebastian Underscore, bram
Bila, Ladies and Gentlemen. New episodes

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