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is that we already went
to Salzburg, Austria, to represent
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the World Trade Organization
at a conference on tariffs and trade.
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There, our representative-the same guy
who is Hank Hardy Unruh here...
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was Dr, andreas Bichlbauer there.
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And he gave a lecture that focused
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on basically doing away with
all customs in the name of free trade,
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like getting rid of the siesta
in Spain and Italy
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so that business hours
could be the same.
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In Italy, on the other hand,
you have a totally different situation,
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in which sleep is...done during
the day as much as at night almost.
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And allowing people to sell their votes
over the Internet to the highest bidder
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so that the barriers to free trade
and things like votes were out of the way.
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One possible solution is being tested
in the field of American politics
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to streamline the grotesquely
inefficient system of elections.
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Vote-auction.com, in turn,
employs only four people
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to transmit not merely information,
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but actual money
directly to the consuming voter.
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It's a-a forum for people voluntarily
to offer their vote to the highest bidder.
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And despite giving what we thought
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was a lecture that would immediately
get us booed off stage
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or get Bichlbauer
maybe even thrown in jail
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because people would figure out
he was an impostor,
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the exact opposite happened.
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Everybody was super polite.
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It didn't seem like everybody even noticed
that what he said was so absurd.
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Well, so far...
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...we thought Bichlbauer
would be very extreme