capitalism

“So if we get much more efficient and you live in a fundamentally deflationary world, like I don't know how capitalism survives that, you know, which is going to be, I think, really exciting.”

“What I dislike about capitalism personally the most is this idea of the hedonic treadmill. You just keep running, you keep running it. If you're able to run at a 12 pace, you should be at 14.”

“If you have a benevolent dictatorship attached to capitalism, you can actually fix problems faster and cause capitalism to, I think, achieve what it's meant to achieve in a much more efficient way than where we are in the US.”

“I think that there is a real truth to the fact that capitalism, free trade, globalization unlocks, you know, massive increases in standard of living.”

“Competition is tough. It motivates all of us, but it's the most destructive force in capitalism, no doubt about it.”

“And I tell my team all the time, these things go hand in hand. Don't tell me, like, we're going to do things that are great, but they're not going to make money. You have to be able to mirror the two, this Capitalism with the social good, and I think people ge…”

“That's why I love capitalism so much more than nonprofits or governments as ways to solve problems, because if someone's willing to pay you to solve the problem and you can make money doing it means that you've created a tremendous amount of value, and it crea…”

“Don't die is the most played game in existence. No, there's no game on planet earth that intelligence, all intelligence plays more than don't die. Every second of every day, all of us are playing don't die. And it's played even more than capitalism played it p…”

“From purely economic perspective, it doesn't matter if people are buying psychotherapy lessons or buying handguns. Same thing for the economy. You know, the economy will grow. It doesn't matter what the product or service is.”

“It's definitely not greater than it's ever been, and we know that because we know history and we know the natural mode of history for thousands of years was, like, there's a strong man, like, and we call him the king or the prince, right, or the whatever triba…”