40 minutes on The Learning Curve

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hello everybody so tonight we're looking at the learning curve spoken about the learning curve a lot in the first 20 slides and what is the learning curve how does the learning curve work and this learning curve is from henry ford's learning between 1999 and 1923 we're currently in 1922 so this is from more than 100 years ago to 99 years ago and we're going to look at what this is how it works and then we're going to say why have people forgotten about the learning curve what is it about management science strategy leadership etc that is currently causing especially since 1973 since the oil crisis constant crises electricity crisis water crisis food crisis sewage crisis waste crisis overfishing crisis sea increasing acidity crisis body acidity crisis cancer crisis health crisis pandemic crisis inflation crisis all these crises because we've forgotten how to learn so this is what henry ford discovered let's go look here this is um this says unit costs in thousands of dollars so over here you've got when henry ford was producing 10 000 cars which one would expect the model t car between at 1909 it was costing about four thousand dollars for 10 000 cars so that's at that point and you can see here let's say three thousand dollars for twelve thousand cars okay as henry built more cars here you can see when you got a hundred thousand cars okay the price had come down from just over three thousand dollars per car to about two and a half thousand dollars a car now we then look when it's another 10x so it's a hundred thousand so we've got two hundred thousand three hundred thousand four hundred thousand so like at about five hundred thousand the price has come down again from here to another thousand to two thousand so we got from ten thousand hundred thousand we reduced the price by five hundred dollars and then from 100 000 to 500 000 by another 500 dollars and then we get to a million where the price is another 200 and by the time we get over here let's say this is 10 million the price so now we've gone from 100 000 to a million that's 10 times and then from a million say 10 million we've gone down to one thousand dollars so when henry ford started in 1909 making ten thousand cars a year they were costing about three thousand dollars a car and when he got to 14 years later and making say 10 million cars a year the price had come down to one thousand dollars a car and how did he do this how did he bring the price down all the time in this learning curve the learning curve means when you make something the first time it costs a lot so for example i spent from 2004 to 2008 learning how to install a new user system and i installed my first one in 2008 2009. so it took me five years to do that and i put about 10 000 hours into that of the 10 000 hours i put a thousand hours into deciding what i needed reading manuals so that you could say was very expensive and then i installed other systems i did a lot of consulting i spoke at a lot of conferences and i learned how to install new systems and between 90 and between 2008 and 2020 12 years the price of systems came down 12 times so in other words the the pv price the inverter price and the battery price came down 90 from 2008 to 2020 for renewable energy at least so there's the learning curve at work the inverters got more efficient for the same amount of money you got a better inverter so the inverter that i paid 35 000 ran for divide by 16 say about two thousand dollars so the inverter i paid about two thousand dollars for in 2008 gave me 3 kilowatts and the inverter that i bought 12 years later gave me 8 kilowatts and more capabilities such as i have the app on my cell phone there was no app in 2008 it cost a lot of money for me to measure what was happening on my inverter instead of one kilowatt i got six kilowatts of pv um instead of 12 kilowatt hours of lead acid where i could only use four kilowatt hours on a regular basis i've got 12 i've got 15 kilowatt hours of lithium ion where i can use 12 kilowatt hours on a regular basis so the price performance is so much more effective and that's because of the learning curve but now look what happened between 19 and then say 2008 and now 2020 for coal power stations the cost has dramatically increased look at nuclear power stations not only is the cost increased but even for countries like france which are experts at at nuclear power other countries which are experts we're going to look at some pictures later on in this presentation another night you can see that countries and companies are unable to make nuclear power stations cheaper and also they don't know how to make them quicker in fact it probably takes two or three times longer today to make a nuclear power station than it did 30 years ago part of the reason for this is because maybe they're 20 of the number of people graduating in nuclear science today compared to 30 years ago which is a problem that was discussed by emory lovens in about 2007 he produced a paper about nuclear power and he explained all the reasons that would happen in the next 20 years the nuclear power and although everybody says it's so clean once you switch it off you've got to maintain that power station for a thousand years we don't know when i was a child 40 years ago and we spoke about nuclear power we were told that by 20 by 2000 we would know how to recycle nuclear power stations but we currently 22 years after that and we still don't know so gas power stations has the gas price come down has the oil price come down i mean look at gas prices in america and in south africa we call gas a gas a vapor that you burn whereas yeah we call petrol petrol in america petrol is gas so what you put in your car and look at the price that's going up all the time and why is that is it easy to blame a war in ukraine or russia even whilst at the same time america has become self-sufficient in energy and therefore international prices should not be affecting the price of gas or petrol or diesel or the fuel that goes into your car in america in south africa 30 percent of our petrol and diesel is made from coal and therefore that component should not be affected by international oil prices we also have local gas production we also have local canola oil production for example we export canola oil so therefore our canada oil price in south africa should not go up yet it's gone up two to three times since january

san faro south africa produces almost all the sunflower oil it needs sunflower oil prices has also gone up because they're priced internationally so we have this problem a number of problems one is the learning curve is not working most of the time if you look at say a 4 000 rand computer divide by say 15 what's that let's say 4 000 divided by fifteen who's doing a calculated two hundred let me just do my calculator here four thousand divided by fifteen say two hundred and fifty dollars three hundred dollars if you buy what a three hundred dollar computer in 1984 and that would be a big desktop computer okay um today you buy a 300 computer you get a laptop which is really light it's got a color screen uh it's got a battery that lasts 10 hours so you're really getting a lot more for your money when you buy but the price of the computer is the same so now if you took a mercedes benz car that cost you say 25 000 rand 20 years ago today that car might cost you a million rand which is a 40 times increase but yet if the if the car if the learning curve in the car was the same as the learning curve in the computer the car would still cost the same as the computer costs so why are cars costing more and more why are mercedes and bmw and even ford themselves and so many other companies toyota lexus aston martin why are they caught why why are these car companies prices going even tesla elon musk said his car prices would come down in real terms every year and they did for a while and of course he bought up the model

t i think it was what was it

it was the model x his first car it was the open car remember that one and then he brought out the model s it was called the roadster he bought out the roadster then he brought out the model s and then he brought out the x and then he brought out the three and then he brought out the y and the i got i got sidetracked because you know elon musk has got sexy cars and the r is the roadster but the r isn't in the sexy it's in the second word so the yeah if you look at sexy cars sexy cars you'll find those are the first letters of all of iran's cars but he couldn't call the model e a model e because of mercedes having the e trademark and so he had to call it a three which is an e backwards hence he has a model three but elon's car should be coming down in price every year in real terms

elon's managed to produce rockets at maybe 10 to the cost of nasa because it doesn't have sunk costs you know there's nasa both the first rockets it cost let's say cost them a billion dollars to build a rocket in 1950 well in 2020 when they were building rockets they were still recovering costs from 1950 what they should have done is said after 20 years those costs are sunk costs those projects are over we're not going to recover costs anymore we're going to work on new designs and that's exactly what ireland does you see governments are unable to do this hence we have something called a natural monopoly in the so-called electricity industry where a government goes and builds a power station for 10 billion dollars and then because of that huge investment they call it a natural monopoly so that no one can compete and then when there's a new product that supersedes that product then there's something called a stranded asset and i mean if i go and invest a million rand in a product or project let's suppose i invest 50 000 in something and something better comes along i can't go and claim from my clients for the 50 000 investments i made but if the government spends 10 billion dollars on something then even if they're saying in five years time that costs half as much the government will say no we have to pay those costs we have to pay for the stranded asset there's no learning curve so we have lots of terms coming on here stranded asset learning curve sunk costs natural monopoly there's a guy called samuel insult in 1920 who was the owner of the chicago electricity utility and he said when we go and build big utilities it's going to cost us such a lot of money and jp morgan and all those guys came along and andrew carnegie to with their money to invest and they all said no we will invest but then we we want to know that we're going to be able to set our product we need base load so basically it isn't how much the power station will provide base load is how much the big off-takers will take for example a mine or a smelter or a steel manufacturer for example those guys need a lot of electricity and they're prepared to buy pay sign 30-year contracts at a certain rate and so that's called the base load load means load it means off take it doesn't mean supply so you'll hear s-com and other utilities talking about base load there's no such thing i mean when s-comb build a five-gigawatt power station they go to their smelters and they go to the big users they go to the big car companies in victoria they go to the big smelters in richards bay they go to the big um they find out about new shopping centers that are being built that need a lot of power they go to the data centers that need a lot of power and they say how much power do you need how long will you buy the electricity for and then because of that they sell 70 of their electricity in advance that gives them the money to buy to build the power station and therefore this business about escom saying we need 10 20 30 increases per year it's completely false

the only reason that it's happening is because of inefficiency and inability to build a scientifically impossible power station which i talked about in 2010 when i said that madoop and casilla were impossible to build if you want to talk to me about that please ask questions i can spend hours telling you why madupi and kusile call power stations are impossible and they're not they're meant to be running at 92 percent efficiency madupi was meant to be completed in 2015 and still not complete it doesn't meet its environmental requirements the era the environmental impact assessment is not being met it's polluting the environment and it's only running at about 40 efficiency i compare it to saying well if you made fries chips in chip oil so you put your sunflower oil in a pot you made your hot chips you ate your chips and then you took the waste oil and instead of disguiding of it properly you put it in your car and then your car goes three miles five kilometers and then breaks then you the engine seizes then you spend the next three weeks fixing the car and then you run it on the same oil because for some reason you're learning you know if if i put waste oil in my car okay because although let's try this out and the car went five kilometers or three miles and then broke i would say okay we need a better quality oil but for some reason the government doesn't do that so samurai and insult created something called a natural monopoly and if you look in nature the word natural comes from nature natural has the word nature in it there's no monopoly in nature if the lions start getting too many then they eat too many back and then the back die off and then the lines die because there's not enough back there's not enough meat and then the back starts producing more and then they increase a lot and then the lines can reach and this relationship is called this relationship is called the locker volterra equation look it up lotka volterra

so the learning curve must be applicable everywhere must be applicable in renewable energy must be applicable in computers must be applicable in cars

must be applicable in food it must be applicable in water you know with the with the shortages of water in cape town the dams that we have can only supply 600 million liters of water a day but cape town currently needs about between 1.2 and 1.5 milliliters of water a day so we should be desatinating between 600 and 900 000 sorry between 600 and 900 million liters of water a day so whatever those numbers are we need double the water that we that we that we have right now i'll put in the notes how much the water should be so the point is we don't have this now if you do the calculation when you build a really big water power station such as the one the ones in in in america on the west coast of of california and the ones in israel you'll discover that they're making water for about eight grand a kilo liter but i'm paying 45 000 kilo liter and i'm only getting 15 kilo liters whereas before the drought in 2017 i was getting 40 kilo liters before i got to the maximum rate now i'm already at the maximum rate when i get to 15 kiloliters and back then i was getting five kilometers for free now i don't get anything free and i have to pay a service charge if i don't use any water for example now it's winter for about seven months of the year i don't need to buy water because i use rain water okay but i still have to pay the service charge and yet the government should be paying me for saving the water because i'm making sure that we have water in summer because i'm not using the water in the dams i'm making sure that the dams are full at the end of winter myself and thousands like me so we can have a learning curve in homeowners where we make electricity and therefore there's more electricity for poor people or for factories or because the factories have got more electricity they can employ more poor people so whilst the government says no david you've got to pay i think my the price in the first year of july we're going to look at this in another slide my price will be 400 kilowatt hour so i'll be paying 500 rand for 150 kilowatt hours why am i already paying that so i'll be paying even more i mean 500 ran 450 kilowatt hours is a lot of money right now today and i have to include vet vit tax

so yeah we we're going deep we can look at the slider we can say the learning curve is as you make more the price comes down fine but we need to go deep we need to really look underneath this graph and we need to say what's going on here we need to thank researchgate and all the people that have produced this graph and done the number of research so i didn't have to do it you can see at the bottom there where it comes from albert university blah blah so all of that stuff is there the model t so we haven't even got to some other things about the model t let's go into the model t so what did what did four do well firstly every single model that came out to the model t let's suppose you brought out a new model every year just like you get a new ford every year a new model with new lights and stuff he didn't do that he made sure that that as many parts as possible between models were the same parts so when the new model came out of the same car same parts and the next model same parts and the next model same parts so the 2020 model of the model t ford was using some of the same parts of the 1919 model that was the first thing he did the second thing he did is by 2020 he was making lots of different kinds of cars not just the model t so if he was making five or ten different kinds of cars he made sure that the same parts were used across multiple different cars

so he made sure that as new cars came out and they had more efficiencies and more capabilities use the same parts and across different models use the same parts and if you could do that in 2020 why can't car companies do that so if you could do that in 1920 why can't car companies do that in 2020

why do we allow people to put the prices up why don't we demand that the prices go down every year and the quality goes up and the efficiency goes up and the miles square the miles per liter or the kilometers per liter go up why don't we demand those things

why are we not learning and there's a lot of other learning that we can do in 2020 why can't we learn faster than in 1920 why don't our brains why haven't we learned how to use our brains in a more clear way why are we so stuck on my epic material our brains are fogged up i made another video called anxiety about brain fog and about why people are so anxious watch that video if i knew how to do this watch the video yeah i would do that but i don't know how to do that i'm not a video editor i'm a scientist i'm making scientific videos if there's someone watching this who's a video editor that wants to do fancy video editing be my guest come on board and you can be the video editor but right now i'm not interested in that i'm interested in giving you scientific facts so that you can make decisions for yourself that are not fake news and if i tell you something that i think is fake news i'm going to tell you this information comes from that place and it could be fake news everything i say by the way is advice it's up to you to decide how to use it and to make use of it i'm not prescriptive i'm not telling you what to think i'm telling you that henry ford showed over his life once he started his factory the ford factory he even bought his own power station because he realized that he could make his own electricity cheaper than he could buy it and while samuel insult was making a so-called natural monopoly in chicago samuels at the same time made something called a monopsony and a monopoly was the only company that could buy the products in south africa the only company that you can buy electricity from is s-com unless s-com nominates for example a municipality to sell adequacy on their behalf but then if i want to sell electricity the only company that can buy my electricity is escom all the cities or municipality on their behalf so i can buy electricity at say four and a kilowatt hour but if i want to sell it i can only set it at 50 cents whereas escom are selling electricity to the municipality at 120. so therefore i should be selling electricity at least at 120. and if you consider that my electricity if i was allowed to export the electricity which i don't i don't export electricity but if i could then i could sell the electricity at 300 kilo an hour to the the council and they could set it to my neighbor at 400 kilowatt hour and they could make a one-round mark-up and that my electricity never touches the transformer go straight out of my house straight into my neighbor's house that's reducing the load on the grid you'll find that cpac the california public utility discovered that when there was net metering the efficiency of transformers went up the cost of production went down they didn't need to have service charges we get told no we need to have service charges because we're all using less electricity but actually in fact the facts are that when people do electric make their own electricity and when they're allowed to export to the grid and when they're allowed to sell to their neighbours indirectly via the grid because i'm selling at a price say three round the neighbor's buying it for end and therefore the utility is making the money in the middle just like the stock exchange if i said you were share i sell the share for one rand you pay 120 and the stock exchange makes 20 cents in the middle same as if i want to sell you some ransom and you want to sell me some dollars you want to sell me some dollars and we see the rate is 15 to the dollar and if we do a one-on-one exchange then you give me 15 15 grand so i give you 15 rand you give me one dollar but if you go and do this via the stock exchange or via the exchange exchange shops then i've got to give them 16 ran for one dollar or you've got to give them 81.20 for 15 rand and that's how people on the middlemen are making the money in the middle we're going to talk about middlemen as well and how that has corrupted our system to some extent and hence why it is blockchain because blockchain is a direct transaction between buy and seller and luna and other exchanges in the middle make very small amounts of money because they don't need to make a fortune to make enough profit

so i think that we must understand that there's a learning curve as we make more the price comes down the efficiency goes up the quality goes up so the quality time cost triangle everything is better and if this is not working if over time we start here with a price of one thousand dollars and by the time we get to 10 million the price is five thousand dollars we failed

and why have we allowed this to happen why have consumers allowed their prices to go up

i mean we get told that everything is made in china and it's made really cheaply and there's slave labor in china you know and if the save lab is making your shirt let's suppose you're wearing a nice shirt or a nice jersey and it got made in china with slave labour okay then you're going to have negative energy because your jersey was made with slave labor you wearing you're a slave owner and the fact that you might not have employed that save directly that doesn't matter from an energy point of view one of the reason why there's so much sickness in the world at the moment one reason why there's so many pandemics is because if i'm wearing clothes maybe a million people are involved in the clothes i'm wearing right now from the farmer from the person making the nutrition for the farm the the pesticides and all of those kinds of things on the farm the chemicals that the farmer uses the petrol the oil system the gas system the car system the transport system the shipping and then the factories in china or korea or even in south africa making the textile goods with machinery made in germany and france and other parts of the world america switzerland textile factories textile factories in italy milan huge textile in area all the people designing the textiles designing the clothes tens of thousands of them people sowing cmt cut make trim die houses finishing

boxing putting stuff in boxes transporting this stuff carrying it to a house try it on changing rooms shopping centers electricity water so i'm wearing jeans and i'm wearing a vest because it's cold i'm wearing a shirt and a jersey and i'm wearing socks and i'm wearing slippers that's what i'm wearing right now i'm wearing glasses so if i add the production line system with the glasses i'm wearing my wedding ring gold so the gold was mined out of the ground so i could have a wedding ring a gold reading ring with all the symbolism i had to have a haircut so that i could look beautiful for you in this in this or handsome depending on your point of view in this video so a million people maybe even 5 10 15 20 million people have been involved in what's in my body and on my body right now and then there's the food there's the water there's so much going on right now how many people are involved in my life if one of those people is a slave i am indirectly responsible for that and we consider that they're saying like 15 million or 25 million or something you can look it up slaves in the world

then these are people that are working for a pittance maybe a boat of rice a day

maybe they have to work at the factory maybe they don't even have a life maybe they're working in places where they have to send money home

and you think about that we want to fix our system we've got a lot of work to do we've got a hang of a lot of work to do and my model that i invented in 1999 fixes all these crises all together and i want to work with you i want to work with your company i want to work with you directly i want to work with your community and i don't do the work what i do is i do knowledge transfer if you want to have a half in our presentation like this one about

the learning curve i can do that if you want to have a three minute presentation or even a 10 second presentation i can do that too but if you watch these videos i'm making now and you get the background detail then by the time i come on site and i do a keynote speech by the time i talk to your ceo by the time i talk to board of directors by the time i talk to executive committee of your community by the time i talk to your accountants you already have the deep insight you need to make the kinds of decisions you need to make for yourselves to make sure that your system is clean that your system doesn't impact the environment

that your cost is less and less for yourself and the cost is less and less for the environment and the cost is less and less on the animals and the cost is less and less on all the animals that you'd like to come to south africa and africa to see if you come to the serengeti and other places like that you come and look at the lions and all those things you go to asian look at tigers we don't want to be looking at them in zoos anymore because we want to be looking them in the natural environment but if we if we're tearing down forests and orangutans are dying almost extinct because we want more oil out of thailand in those places philippines and we're cutting down forests in central africa i've flown over central africa in the middle of the 19 plains where it's been not cloudy and you can see fires burning across those forests because people are burning down the forest because they want to have land to for cows and i'm not saying we shouldn't eat meat but maybe you should have meat every three months like i do i have a little steak or something once every three months it's enough for me i don't have to eat steak every day but i like to eat it that makes you feel good and comfortable and the old testament the bible says why should eat meat on special occasions well obviously every day is a special occasion because i'm alive when i wake up in the morning it's a special occasion but right now i don't have to eat meat i have to eat it on a really special occasion such as the new year or the fast break or whatever the case is not every day and this is all part of the learning curve as i learn more about health my health cost comes down as i learn more about food my food costs might go up okay because i'm buying more and more quality food but my overall health cost comes down my overall cost of living comes down and i mustn't be picking on one number people will say but david you're paying twice as much for this food as the guy next door maybe it's true i am but for me the primary thing as i said in a video before it goes in my mind the primary thing is what i'm eating what i'm drinking what i'm breathing and what's going into my head what what i'm thinking what consciousness is entering my mind and that's what you see this this youtube channel is called being human and thanks to ram ram kumar from eshram kumar a doctor from natal who went off who had a serious health crisis and went to india for for a year and he did a major detox there and read about it in his book called being human it's fascinating i don't need to repeat that he's written it it's in his book if he asks me to review it i'll review it i've often thought about that should i review books happy to do it not sure if it's allowed or not but i can take everything i know and i can put it together in these videos for you

so there must be a link curve in everything we do we should be breathing more and more clean air every day we should be drinking better and better quality water our milk standard should be increasing but our milk standards are decreasing yes you heard that correctly if you're going to look at the mock standard from 1990 and you compare it to the milk standard in south africa maybe other countries 2020 you'll discover that milk allows more pasta today than back then because the demand for milk has outstripped the ability of mankind to produce cows to produce the milk and therefore in order to produce the amount of milk we need the quality has decreased but then maybe we should be looking at alternatives for milk maybe there's other kinds of maybe there's nut milk maybe we don't even need milk although if you don't have sugar in your coffee it's nice to have a little bit of milk because milk is lactose it's a form of sugar

so the learning curve is applicable everywhere not just in ford ford cars or mercedes benzes but it's applicable in your jerseys it's applicable in your clothes it's applicable and everywhere and it doesn't mean that the person who's actually doing the work should earn less and less and the middle man and the retailer should earn more and more so the guy who made my jersey which maybe this jersey cost fifty dollars it's quite an expensive jersey maybe the person that made it only got one dollar and then the middle man got ten dollars and then the shop i bought it from got thirty dollars and that's really unfair it's very very unfair it's very very unfair that the person that took the most risk is paid the least and that's something we need to look at there should be no need for slave labor in the world today in 2022

and if we don't stop this parasites are going to get worse because everything we get from nature when we get a parasitic disease that causes us to be unable to breathe it's because nature is telling us hey humans i can't breathe i'm sending a breathing illness what do you do you stay at home for two years great everybody's at home for two years and if you watch other videos i made you'll see the canals in venice got clean people said they'd never get clean but after three weeks they were clean after lockdown started people stopped cruising people stopped flying

people in bangladesh or in parts of india mumbai one guy said i can see god because for the first time in 30 years he could take off his mosque that he had to wear for 30 years and had to run air cleaners at home

because of the terrible pollution

and the capital of pakistan we know someone there they've got an aircrane in every single room in the house

because the pollution is so bad in that city and they wear masks all the time whether there's covert or not they have to wear masks

we want all of our inputs to be improving we want the quantity to be going up constantly

we want the time to get them to be coming down because their abundance is going up we want their cost to be coming down that is a pure quality cost time triangle

but we get told we get taught in business school if you want the quality to go up and you want the time to go down then the cost numbers go up or if you want the cost to come down then the quality must come down or the time must go up this is false it's completely false i'm sorry to say and obviously when i learned about this when i did an mba in 1992 i thought it was true but it's not true if we have the learning curve which is the subject of this talk then the quality must be going up all the time the time to manufacture must be coming down all the time and the cost must be coming down all the time we don't have to have this thing where if we want to make the best quality we've got to have the highest price there's lots of things that we make that are fantastic quality and low price for example what you buy at your corner grocer

or we get stuff from the farm there's a farm in france that deliver to us

and we get fantastic quality goods at a really low price delivered in a cold truck by a very friendly guy they even tell us it's going to arrive at 9 34 am that answer is going to arrive by 10 o'clock it's going to arrive between 910 they give you the precise minute the truck is going to get to your house i've never seen that before

we pay 250 rand for a fresh box of vegetables we don't even know what we're going to get because it's vegetables in season and maimonides a great rabbi from the 12th century and a consultant to the kings or sultans of turkey he said you should eat food in its season so the season in south africa right now in the southern miss winter so there is lots and lots of fruit with vitamin c because you need vitamin c in winter strawberries are summer fruit we should not be eating strawberries in winter yet today you can strawberries all year round we get apples all around because we have massive apple sheds and maybe it's okay to eat apples right around i certainly like like eating an apple every day an apple a day keeps the doctor away remember that one of the reasons is because an apple cleans your teeth if you're not going to brush your teeth at least eat an apple before you go to bed or in the evening after you've had supper we need to listen to ancient wisdom we need to see what's going on we need to reduce our cost for ourselves we need to reduce our cost on our environment so that they're more animals there's more fish in the sea there's more crustaceans there's more

whales

there's better quality water there's better quality food when i go to us i worked in a hospital in south africa for six months in 2019 i was shocked at the state of the hospital toilets i was shocked at the state of the furniture etc and i was especially and mostly shocked at the state of the restaurant and the food it was serving it's such a fantastic opportunity to serve the best quality organic food at the cheapest possible price made locally with a 100 mile diet everything is made within 100 miles of where you buy it 160 kilometers to show people how to eat if you teach people how to eat you keep them out of hospitals

and as the world got more healthy at the beginning of covert believe it or not trillions of animals hundreds of trillions of animals were saying thank you humans for staying at home thank you for allowing us to go us coyotes american foxes to go trotting on that big bridge in california the golden gate bridge the penguins in in um simonstein and captain to go waddling down the main road because there weren't any cars in cape town the people in mumbai who could see god because there was no pollution

god shut us down for a reason to teach us how to look after the planet but all we want to do is go back to the office in a building my office is at my house my office has been at my house since adsl arrived in south africa in 2002. that's when i moved my office to my house before that my office was in my clients every client i had i had a desk in the client after that some clients i kept the desk and i said i didn't need the desk anymore

and therefore my transport cost has come down my pollution has come down my maintenance bill has come down i don't spend much money on cars i don't spend much money on transport compared to my friends

my main priority is to make sure it goes into my body is pure it's quality

it's making me healthy i want to make sure that the clothing i wear is the best possible quality at the least possible relative price and that there haven't been anybody any slaves involved and if they are every night or every morning when i do my daily prayers i pray for forgiveness that i am wearing clothes that may be of me made by slaves and that i pray that they will be freed as soon as possible and if they're not free physically then their minds should be free because once your mind is free you get something called redemption and once you get redemption you get something called revelation

and if you are redeemed you will live people that survive concentration camps believed in the future they believed in god even amongst even at a time of terrible anguish

they believed in the goodness that they're good people out there that will come and help them and not steal from them

we must apply the learning curve in everything we do the cost of everything must come down not just and it mustn't just because production goes up let's suppose i only need ten thousand a month of something when i make ten thousand this month costs x when i make ten thousand next month or next year it should cost x ninety percent of x when i make ten thousand in extremes cos eighty percent of x etc every year when i make 10 000 the price should be coming down by 10 if it's not i'm not doing my job even with inflation it should be coming down in fact there shouldn't be inflation we can spend hours talking about why inflation is ridiculous that inflation is caused because of our system which if you saw in the previous slide i spoke about exponential growth exponential growth causes inflation we get told that deflation is bad but with inflation i put a thousand rain in the bank this year and i can go and buy say 100 loads of bread next year i can only buy 90 loaves of bread but with deflation if i could buy 100 loaves of bed this year i could buy 110 loaves of bread next year which would force people to save it would incentivize people to save because people would know that their savings is values going up faster than inflation in fact it's deflating which means that it's becoming more valuable that's what we want over time as we get older we need to be getting more valuable our values must be increasing not decreasing so the learning curves on values must be increasing

so i want to bless you that you'll understand the learning curve that you take what i'm saying and talk about it with your friends with your colleagues with your wife your husband your boyfriend your girlfriend your mother your father your child your boss and each of these subjects that you'll talk about them and try and go deep try to find out what's underneath

i bless you that you find the wisdom from the words i've said i bless you that you speak to each other and look for the wisdom and the words that each other give you i bless you that we find ways to get rid of slavery in the world i bless you and all of us that we find ways to be more healthy together and that we find ways to make our world and planet more healthy amen