capitalism
5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 30, 2024 by Sam Lessin · across every show →
Everything said about capitalism, oldest first
Aug 30, 2024 positive
Oct 18, 2024 bearish
Lessin: Untrusted rules and erratic regulation push US toward economic decline
“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…”
Jun 20, 2025 bearish
Lessin: AI drives margins to zero, threatening capitalism's structural profit model
“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…”
Jul 18, 2025 neutral
Jul 17, 2026 negative
Sam Lessin: Tech is pursuing political regulatory capture over market capitalism
“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?”