Dr. Bill McClay
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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Socialism is a charmer in the sense that it offers an answer to this.
We have an inequitable distribution of wealth because really smart, ambitious entrepreneurial people like Elon Musk, an immigrant, have made fantastic fortunes creating things that people want.
and that perform important functions in our economy and the world's economy.
So they they they deserve the wealth that comes to them from their inventiveness, from their persuasiveness, their persistence, their innovation.
And
On the one hand, I'm a Harvard major in gender studies.
The world owes me something, a guaranteed job.
I think it's a hard fall for a lot of this generation to see the reality
of what in a very rapidly changing job market and who knows what ai is going to do to a lot of these white-collar jobs that that may not need to have human beings filling them so it's scary and you know the idea that we could just sort of stop things and redistribute all of this fantastic uh this disparity of wealth
is appealing.
What they never take into account is the inevitable human corruption that comes when you have agencies of government redistributing wealth, and it becomes violent, it becomes repressive, it becomes oppressive.
It ultimately squelches the creative energies of an economy.
And we have chapter and verse on the history of this in a variety of countries in a variety of time periods.
Look, even Latin America is going free market across the board.
I mean, there's just a few holdouts.
In Latin America?
Nicaragua.
Oh, yeah.
1812.
That was a crazy thing for us to do.
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