I think it's fine for them to get together. They should do it. I just think that if you're not there, I would not weigh these things so heavily because it speaks more to your own insecurity than it does to their actual influence on things. An elite gathering is when like Michael Jordan and LeBron James and Steph Curry get together and work on their basketball game. That's an elite gathering. A gathering of elites is what's happening in Davos. But they are the presidents of their companies and the presidents oftheir countries. So I would differentiate between the people who are merely attending or paying the $40,000. Probably a bunch of hangers on. Anyone willing to pay
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