The speaker believes the present offers substantially greater leverage than it did 2,000 years ago, while the absolute influence available today remains quite low.

“So like in relative terms,”

“I agree the present moment is a moment of higher leverage and you can expect to have more influence.”

“I just think in absolute terms,”

“the amount of influence you can have is still quite low.”

“so it might be orders of magnitude greater than it would have been 2,000 years ago and still be quite low”