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If you think about people spending a thousand dollars a year on lottery tickets, we need to think about that.

In financial terms, this would be like always spending 50 percent more than you earn, going further into debt every year.

And for me that means spending time thinking and talking about the poor, the disadvantaged, those who will never get to TED.

So I began spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about needles: Like, would we find needles with the right fidelity?

For a start, we're not looking that hard, and we're spending a pitiful amount of money on it.

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

We had a three-person rule in our organization, saying that if three self-identified volunteers in the movement were in agreement that something was good for the movement, they had the green light from the highest office to go ahead and act in the name of the organization, including spending resources.

I did not expect to be spending a significant part of my time as a Harvard surgeon worrying about checklists.

So that's wrong, and in fact, if you think that, you're just not spending it right.

So instead of spending it the way you usually spend it, maybe if you spent it differently, that might work a little bit better.

We thought maybe the reason money doesn't make us happy is that we're spending it on the wrong things; in particular, we're always spending it on ourselves.

So if you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right.

High-capacity transportation means spending lots and lots of money.

So spending much less money and doing it much faster, you can really change the way people move.

We're spending so much money to try to replicate this campaign.

And if it was only 50 percent as effective as we think that it was, then there are all sorts of other things maybe we should be spending our money on instead.

And the amount of time each of us is spending doing all of this is also continuing to go grow.

A recent study showed that the young generation alone is spending over eight hours a day online.

And all of these are stated by people: "I know that objectively it really doesn't mean much, but after spending so many years as a small fish in a big pond, it's nice to feel bigger again."

I ended up spending the better part of the next year not only training my memory, but also investigating it, trying to understand how it works, why it sometimes doesn't work, and what its potential might be.

They're getting feedbacks from their spends or whatever their activities are if they're not spending, and they see what's working, and then they do more of that.

Now, my obsession ended up driving me to create full-size prototypes in my own backyard — (Laughter) — and actually spending my own personal savings on everything from tooling to patents and a variety of other costs, but in the end I ended up with this modular housing system that can react to any situation or disaster.

It would have been called something different, because Falcon 9 is nine Merlin engines, but instead of spending a billion dollars on a brand new engine, we put nine of them together on the back end of Falcon 9. Residual capability: glue three Falcon 9s together and you have the largest operational rocket flying.

And yet we're spending billions of Swiss francs on this problem.

Instead, let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish, because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers, when taxpayers and citizens, agree that that's what we ought to be doing and that's how we ought to be spending our money.

I might have ended up spending most of my life on the back ward of a hospital, but that isn't how my life turned out.

Being a retailer, it is a play on the belief that this middle-class that's growing will continue to grow, that the boom and the confidence in consumer spending will continue.

Now, this pattern is seen in consumer models of retail spending, i.e., where we choose to go shopping.

We also know a lot about consumer spending flows.

Some of it's very high-tech, and some of it is extremely low-tech, such as the project that MKSS is running in Rajasthan, India, where they take the spending data of the state and paint it on 100,000 village walls, and then invite the villagers to come and comment who is on the government payroll, who's actually died, what are the bridges that have been built to nowhere, and to work together through civic engagement to save real money and participate and have access to that budget.

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