society
7 statements across 7 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2020 by Bethany McLean · across every show →
Everything said about society, oldest first
Jun 9, 2020 negative
McLean: Fracking executives extract wealth while leaving society cleanup liabilities
“It's another case of capitalism gone wrong, and that a lot of people at the top of these companies have made their billions, and walked away from it, and then the rest of society is left to clean up the mess, because the companies are bankrupt, and don't have …”
Mar 8, 2022 negative
McChrystal: Tech Improves Risk Assessment, but Inertia Keeps Society Vulnerable
“And so I would argue on the one hand, there is the ability to assess the risk with greater accuracy and more timeliness, but we have problems in our society and our organizations now where it's very hard to overcome inertia, either The inaction or the momentum…”
May 31, 2022 negative
Burgis: Tacit knowledge is undervalued due to demands for explicit explanations
“And I think that this kind of tacit knowledge and articulate knowledge is undervalued in our society. It's undervalued because, you know, we always want to be able to like explain the science and Give the hard reasons for it.”
Jan 9, 2024 neutral
Eastman: Nonverbal trust relies on conforming to societal bell-curve behavioral expectations
“Trust from a nonverbal perspective is just, you could think of behaviors on a bell curve distribution, right? So certain people are going to act in certain ways that are not in alignment with how society perceives that behavior to be trustworthy.”
Dec 9, 2025 positive
Jan 20, 2026 negative
Housel: Wealthy People Without Frugal Habits Are Merely Conforming to Society
“If you can look at particularly someone who is above average income and there isn't something in their life that they spend very little on, I think there's a high chance that they're just a sheep going along with society tells them they should want.”
Apr 22, 2026 neutral
Brockman: Allocating compute will be society's most important question
“Well, this is going to be the most important question for society to answer. Where does the compute go? What problems are worthy? And there's lots of worthy problems, but you need to prioritize them, because you only have so much compute.”