democracy
7 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Loretta Sanchez · across every show →
Everything said about democracy, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Sanchez: Democratic participation inherently makes government processes slow
“The democratic process is that everybody gets their day in court. Everybody gets their chance to petition. Everybody gets their redress of government. Everybody, if you want to participate, you get your ability to participate. So, if that's what we believe dem…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Harari: The breakup of the individual will collapse democracy and capitalism
“If in the 20th century, the big fear for individualism was that the individual will be crushed from outside, now the threat comes from the opposite direction. The individual will break up from inside, and then the entire structure of individualism and democrac…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Harari: Superior algorithms will render democracy and free markets completely obsolete
“And once you have an external entity, An algorithm that knows me better than I know myself. This is the real turning point. This is the point when individualism as we've known, it doesn't make any sense when democracy in the free market become completely obsol…”
Jan 2, 2019
Caplan: Democracy is a shared water pool used simultaneously as trash disposal
“Rather than thinking about democracy as a supermarket, think of it more about as like a common pool of water that is also our trash disposal system. And so people simultaneously are throwing in all of our intellectual garbage, but it's also where we drink.”
Nov 16, 2022
Balaji: Collective coordination occurs through democracy, markets, or harmony
“There's at least three different ways of thinking about many becoming one. There is let's call it there's democracy, right, which is an aggregation, an election. Many become one because you all vote and then the decision and it goes out. There's markets where …”
Nov 16, 2022
Srinivasan: Capitalism and democracy are conflict resolution tools, not social foundations
“Both capitalism and democracy, by the way, are tools. They're conflict resolution tools, you know. Democracy is elections. Capitalism is markets. But like, within a family, or even within a company or a community, Not everything is an election or an auction. M…”