Democracy

“The federal government isn't designed to do these types of things. States are. Communities are. They've all been blown up in favor of kind of national integrated economy, and the problem is the federal government is just not set up, and it's, you can't do a de…”

“When I read history, like say we had city-states before we had nation-states, they were never, never very democratic in nature, the ones that thrived.”

“When you have a protest, and in particular, a peaceful protest, It's very important to have anonymity. That is one of the bedrocks of democracy, and when you have cameras all over the place, and now with facial recognition being so easy to use, you are eroding…”

“I think at the limit, it's actually kind of indefensible to have A perspective other than lawful use, because if you are salami slicing the policy, that's actually tyranny by tech bro. You know, a small number of people are constraining the maneuver space of a…”

“Proof of human is a piece of a very important puzzle where we have to upgrade the entire infrastructure or we're not going to be a democracy anymore. I mean, that, that'd just be my guess.”

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

“The transition in Venezuela to democracy will be orderly, will be stable, because we have a whole country that wants the same”

“The other thing is having sex with robots is going to make us worse at democracy.”

“The third space, the library, the neighborhood, the community center is the space where people used to come together around a shared mission with people that are different from them, which work has done as well. And once you lose that, you lose the space where…”

“Democracy self-correct and dictatorships double down and to watch in real time, a country of our scale and a democracy, you know, decide to make a change. I think that's why we've been great for, you know, 250 plus years and will remain great.”

“Democracy, I think, is very bad for India, but any other system is even worse. And I'm a great believer that what we are doing is right.”

“So Bangladesh, what has happened is that democracy was slightly compromised, and it's a reaction to it.”

“Democracy inside a company where everybody gets a vote on what we're doing is not a great way to build a company. Like companies are benevolent dictatorships when they win.”

“I would say there's a bunch of MAGA extremists in every part of society, and I hope we can prevent them from destroying democracy, which is probably the most important issue we face.”

“Half the humans on this planet Earth do not have a voice. The one thing that's trending in the wrong direction globally is people living in a democracy. It's the one thing not getting better.”

“And when the majority discovered it could steal the goods of whomever it wanted, legally, legally you would wind up with dictatorship.”

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

“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 …”

“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…”

“It's a operationally a democracy if Bitcoin is legal, because then you've got freedom to exit with your money and freedom to transact. And if Bitcoin is not legal, Or if it's restricted, then it's a limited democracy or flawed democracy or non-democracy. Becau…”

“I basically believe that we need to increase the amount of consent in society to go from where we currently are, which I would consider a 51% democracy to a hundred percent democracy.”

“It's only when there's conflict resolution that you need markets or elections or both. And so, it's not just that, you know, America's about capitalism and democracy. In many ways, that's all that's left. Because a lot of the community that's underpinned Ameri…”

“I do think that at the end of the day, this agenda is a naive one. And it's and, you know, I don't need much to prove its naivety because at the end of the day, even the democratic solution in the West is being kind of like in a mess right now. It's not where …”

“But if not for that deep state, we may have found ourselves in a lot of very ugly situations over the last four years that there really were layers and layers of career public servants that did incredible and incredibly heroic things to preserve democracy, to …”

“I do think things like universal basic income and whatnot are going to have to come up more and more in this conversation because well, okay, it's an existential threat to our democracy.”

“I don't think we fundamentally live in a democracy anymore, because I know I don't, and I know that pretty much everyone around me is too afraid to say how they truly feel.”

“But of all the things that are probably going to destroy a democracy, it happens to be Facebook.”

“I actually don't believe we live in a democracy anymore. I was actually just talking to my mother about it, because I don't feel available and free to say at all what I think, 90% of the time, because of the public reaction that might ensue.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”