Chris Hughes
speaker
350 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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A lot of people were frustrated about prices going up and a lot of things that happened, and people don't want to go back to that.
But nor do people want to go back to the free market bailout central thing that led to the great financial crisis.
And people don't want Trump anonymous.
Well, I think a lot of people, some people do, obviously, but a lot of people don't.
And so the idea of what I'm trying to do is say, hey, there's a better way.
We can use the power of private markets and say business is good, but business doesn't just run on its own.
It's got to be pointed in the direction to make the economy more functional and more fair.
And so this is a roadmap for how to do it.
Yeah, I wouldn't say unlearn.
I'd say revise and expand.
So, yeah, I used to think, look, I grew up in North Carolina in the 80s and my both my parents were conservative and I grew up thinking that government was mostly.
the problem.
And if we could just get government out of the way, then people could get good paying jobs at businesses that they believed in.
And that was the route to prosperity.
And so, you know, my life, as you were saying, has taken all these twists and turns.
Co-founder of Facebook in 2004.
That changed my life dramatically.
I'd been a financial aid kid at Harvard.
And by...
2012, all of a sudden I had all kinds of wealth and privilege that I couldn't have dreamed of.
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