Chamath Palihapitiya
speaker
46,507 appearances
224 recordings
7 series
first heard Nov 2022
last heard 2d ago
Chamath Palihapitiya’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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let's call it the Dario position that let's call it the regulated free market that we have.
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His fundamental
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Contention is that that will lead to a race to the bottom, that competition jeopardizes safety.
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It's in all of his blog posts, and many other people reflect this idea that competition equals lack of safety.
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And that is implicitly a critique of our economic system.
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It's basically a left-wing critique.
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Of our system, and it goes back a long way.
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I remember
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Back in the days of the Cold War, when we really had this duel between two different systems.
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Do you want the sort of the free market system or do you want the communist system?
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A lot of people made the claim that the capitalist system would do things like jeopardize safety and beauty, that our buildings would always be uglier because the greedy capitalists wouldn't want to spend a dime on beautification or good architecture, things like that.
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In fact,
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Fact, it turned out that the Soviet system
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Was the one that produced the cold gray landscapes.
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Why?
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Because people want beauty, they want safety.
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And therefore, if you have a well-functioning market economy, then it gives people what they want.
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And obviously the American system won out in that battle.
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So I just fundamentally disagree with the idea that competition means lack of safety.
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As Zuckerberg and Jensen were saying, there are huge incentives on both the upside and downside to be safe.
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