Teaching Ownership Over Consumerism
We have a society of people that we have failed to show them how
important free
enterprise is. In our country, the reason kids are suffering
is we have not
taught them any history, and they're all consumers.
Listen, if, if you have a Apple phone, which most people have an
iPhone, a large number of people do, say, "How many of these did you buy?" I, I
showed some kids the other day. Here's what it would...
If you bought every iPhone, it came to, like, it was, like, $22,000.
If you would've taken the same amount of money you spent on the iPhone and you
became an owner instead of a consumer, you bought the stock of Apple for the same
price as that phone at that time, I showed them exactly what it is,
you'd have
$331,000 right now. It's not an economic
problem. It's that you're a consumer, not an owner,
and we need to teach people to
be owners. And so we-
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