Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

What do you think would have happened?

I think you would have seen... Caligula with a nuke.

I think it's dangerous, right?

I think someone would have made a very good case to go and invade the USSR.

I think someone made a very, very good case to make the entire world America.

And I think you have to do that to some degree as a great power.

Like you have to accept your responsibility as the great power on Earth.

because otherwise you won't be the great power for long.

I think to boil it down, like America is, we're very, very unique in that we obsess about our goodness.

And I think most of our greatness does come from that fact.

I think our allies fight alongside us.

I think every citizen of America

to the degree they're patriotic, fights because we're good and not for anything else.

And I think that is actually a very, very, very important thing to maintain in the coming decades.

We absolutely can't forget that.

So like an example here, I think many people are starting to use, make a case for capitalism because it's the most financially efficient engine.

And I do believe that to be true, but that's actually not why we have capitalism.

The reason we have capitalism is because it provides significantly more personal sovereignty to the individual than capitalism

socialism or communism or other things now I should balance that I don't believe in like Anarchal capitalism, right?

I believe in a well regulated capitalist market that creates positive some environments and make sure bad monopolies don't exist, but I think provided Thoughtful regulation good regulation is built behind that I think capitalism is both of those things but the argument for it to exist is the former and

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