Forces. Um, and that was sort of my goal, my goal with the book. As far as the consumer thing, i just think, yeah, its very pervasive in our chul you cultu, and one of the counterarguments to the book has always been like, well, convenience. Amazon is convenient, and convenience is a consumer value, and i think we need to push back on that as something that, you know, underpins a lot of our choices and our activities. Right. And, frank foer, ill let you get the last word in on that. Right. We have that, we have certain expectations about the stuff that we get. And its shaped by the world that we live in and this marketplace. We expect that we should get everything as cheaply as possible and as efficiently as possibly. And to some extent those are tenets of capitalism. But they havent always been tenets of american political economy. There have been moments in our past, in our notsodistant past where we said, okay, its not necessarily the most important thing to get things as cheaply as
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