Capitalism

“July, twenty-twenty-six, Fox News poll found that 61% of Republicans view capitalism favorably down from 72% In 2019, while the share who feels strongly favorable has fallen from 54 to 41%, the share who say the system is rigged towards the wealthy has climbed…”

“Capitalism, there, it's, there's gonna be a use for the most computationally efficient intelligences on planet Earth, and those are human intelligences.”

“This is what I don't like about our moment in history, is I don't think we're playing capitalism anymore. Like, I think we're playing some, like, political capture game that is way less interesting than capitalism, right?”

“It's probably smart for the beneficiaries of capitalism to also fiend altruism because that allows for them to remain capitalist for longer.”

“Capitalism lifts everybody up. It doesn't create equal outcomes. I actually don't think you want that. You want high growth that lifts everyone up.”

“So if you believe in the use case of capitalism, you have to believe in trickle down economics.”

“I think capitalism rewards risk more than anything else. It's not, I think a lot of people think it rewards, it's like meritocracy. There are a lot of people who are working really hard, or hard work, which I think is silly. There are a lot of people working r…”

“We are gonna lose capitalism unless we find a combination of a ways to address it.”

“Capitalism is the one system that has proven to raise life's standard of humans across the globe.”

“Historically, everything in education has been nonprofit. And the problem with nonprofits is nonprofits are non-scalable, which is the better your product, the faster your donations go away, right?”

“Socialism sucks. It is terrible. The only people who Do well in redistribution of wealth are the ones doing redistribution. Like it's fundamentally corrupt and there's not enough bad things I can say about socialism. So I think capitalism works exceedingly wel…”

“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…”

“When you elevate structures of capitalism to a religion per se, when it's not anchored in morality and love for other people and a responsibility to perhaps even the divine, what you're going to do is you're going to cut corners and you're not going to get the…”

“This pathway comes further down the journey than that pathway, because I think you have to win at capitalism before you can win at morality.”

“Capitalism will either change, or we will cease to exist as a successful species.”

“Less than half of people under the age of 40 have a favorable view of capitalism.”

“Capitalism, yes, of course, capitalism doesn't necessarily need people. It needs money and profits. A.I.s can do can do that. Capitalism already created non-human persons which run the show and they are corporations.”

“I think Marx was right on a lot of the critique of capitalism, maybe not the solutions.”

“And by and large, what you have to do in capitalism is put up with a never ending chain of uncertainty and volatility and things you didn't see coming. And so it's never fun to deal with that. A recession, a job loss or stock market goes down. It's never, it's…”

“American, common American undergraduate textbooks, economics textbooks, into the 19 eighties would stated as fact that communism was the superior economic system to capitalism, and they would have these charts of projected growth rates, and they would show tha…”

“That my personal opinion, as you know, is that it's fundamentally a function of overspending by the government and over promising rather than allowing natural market forces to bring everyone up, which fundamentally I think created and creates a lot of the dist…”

“Don't die is the next major ideology on par with democracy, capitalism, Christianity, Islam.”

“Right now there's a great danger in our country to losing a movement that represents the free market, trade, and capitalism, and all of those things, because I think we're moving towards a movement that backs a person”

“Capitalism, I think will always reward whatever hacks your brain to give you reward immediately in dopamine. And that means that's why there was shift to shorter video. It's an easier hack for the brain.”

“Part of the problem on, on schooling today is everything has to be nonprofit, right? The organization is nonprofit. And so then you just, you're caught up scaling, right? There are good school system, you know, charter schools out there, you know where their g…”

“I believe we need to bring entrepreneurs in. We need to bring capitalism in here and we need to create all the different parts of school choice so that parents can pick what they love.”

“You can only make money on productivity if you can do it uniquely. If everyone does the same productivity, the temperature rises, no difference, no money to be made. It's just like, that's how capitalism works.”

“Capitalism tends towards efficiency, but that's the whole beauty of it, but like requires structural inefficiency to profit, right? If there's no structural inefficiency, there's no profit, right? Which is why people talk about how AI is communist and, you kno…”

“The lifetime leisure hours have gone from like 40,000 to 160,000 more. And so this is like the marvel of capitalism is that it's given us more leisure.”

“Really what free markets and capitalism and all this does is it allows you to con, it allows you to conquer through voluntary cooperation and through the benefit of the people that choose to do business with you. And that's an incredibly positive form of conqu…”

“Capitalism is bad when you're left behind. When you're invested in capitalism, it's great, baby.”

“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.”

“I do kind of believe that current course in speed leads us away from healthy, pure capitalism, right? And into a place where people don't really trust the rules. There's a lot of random outcomes. They don't want to work that hard because they don't really unde…”

“The reason capitalism works is you have people at the top of the heap that have already made it, probably because they killed themselves to get there, and then you have people who want to be where they are and are willing to do the jobs that are necessary in o…”

“Everyone feels anxious and insecure in the job search. Lenny, hey, everyone. It's built into the fabric of how capitalism operates. It's not something problematic in your head. It's the instability of the system, which gives us its dynamism, but which also cre…”

“It makes me appreciate capitalism, right? Where like we use this thing called money and trade for things and services with each other.”

“The reality is I really truly believe that capitalism and competition are the only chance we have to provide a, an optimizer that is capable of getting us to the right place. I think we need the right guardrails to do that.”

“Society misrepresents insecurity to be a bad thing. Insecurity, in my opinion, leading to inaction is a bad thing. Insecurity leading to action is generally conducive to a world governed by capitalism for sure.”

“Any criticism that can be leveled against the capitalist society or economy you can just 10 X it. And you know, whatever it is, whether it's environmental damage or quality of life or whatever, it's just worse under communism.”

“When we had, ah, democratic capitalism, there was always this concern that the poorest would kind of overtax the rich and that the incentive system would be broken down. In fact, you know, that really hasn't happened. You have in Northern Europe very high tax …”

“Therefore, I think that capitalism and thus business building is the most practical way to manifest a dream or a reality.”

“It is inevitable and it is actually ideal that there are some level of inequality. In the world. It's not only inevitable, it's ideal. The opposite of that is, is a nightmare, but it's also the case that you do not want a third of society waking up every morni…”

“In Texas, in the oil business, one sees, as nowhere else, that the ideal of capitalism is the ideal of founding a family and conferring the right of inheritance upon it, passing a legacy on.”

“That's the zeroth step, is, you know, don't die is the most played game By every human, by every living being on every animal, every plant, every human, it's don't die every second of every day. And so it's played more than capitalism. It's played more than re…”

“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…”

“The EU seems absolutely determined to ban everything to sort of put a blanket ban on capitalism and within that ban AI and ban energy.”

“There was a very, very big movement in the seventies and eighties that was very Marxist. And then when Soviet Union fell, A lot of the Marxists became kind of the leaders of the green activists. So I think a lot of their solutions are, let's get rid of capital…”

“If you combine like more advanced nuclear power, With more advanced carbon sequestration, I think the numbers actually add up for a builder to solve that problem too, versus, versus going at the core and attacking capitalism.”

“According to Pew, over the last few years, we've seen a 10% decline in people's faith and confidence in capitalism.”

“Joe, among the age group, 18 to 29, 44% of that group believe socialism is a superior form of organizing government than capitalism.”

“Capitalism and free markets are the machine that has lifted people out of poverty for, you know, 500 years.”

“Capitalism is by permission of democracy, and it can be revoked, that permission”

“I think where capitalism's broken is where the capture's the highest, right?”

“I think the newer generation are gonna question The true cost of everything... They don't want to own material things, They want to go travel. They're going to experience things. I think they'll be less capitalistic than the generation that went by. Businesses…”

“I don't think socialism works at all. And we have more than enough precedent of that. I think capitalism has to be appreciated. And that probably is the most likely scenario in which our country can get lucky and go towards that five trillion, 10 trillion doll…”

“I actually don't think either we're going to run out of jobs because I think that for every job that gets taken away, new jobs are coming and it's been happening for the past 150 years.”

“The world we live in right now under capitalism is the best version of the world, not just for the affluent, but for all sections of society.”

“I think capitalism itself will break. Like, what do you think is the underlying, what do you think is the underlying Asset of capitalism. Like, what do you think runs capitalism? It's not money. It's information.”

“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…”

“Obviously I think capitalism is great. But I think AGI is sort of an exception to that. In a well-run society, I think even if we rewound the US, you know, 50 plus years, this would absolutely happen by the government.”