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When a community wants to build like a bridge or transit system, housing, sustainable infrastructure, where does the money come from? Money ultimately decides what gets built.

Money decides what survives.

Money decides what future becomes possible.

So change where money goes and who controls it, then you change what becomes possible.

I'm Trinity Tran.

I lead efforts to build public banks in California and beyond.

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So you're more about go experience a city, not a specific mountain or temple or anything, but more just the whole city, the flow of the city.

Yeah, but, you know, I mean, I say more of the city because, you know, Kyoto is known to be the most traditional cities there is to visit.

If you really want to see how it used to be back in the days, that's why I mentioned Kyoto.

Because, you know, they have the geisha, they have all the temples, they have all the historical, you know, architecture.

And each of the big cities that I mentioned has some differences in their own culture.

culture too as you know as the United States too every state can be different so that's why it's I think everywhere in Japan it's really nice to go to because just visiting and be there it's already a culture shock just stepping into the land of Japan it's already a culture shock itself so whatever you do is going to be amazing and a great learning experience I would say one of I guess the myth I would say that a lot of people who visit Japan say that Japan is quite expensive.

And I think as a traveler, it's expensive, but when you live there, it's not that expensive because food can be quite cheap if you know where to go.

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