Ethan Thornton

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And so I think we need to just view American democracy through that lens to the greatest degree possible.

I think it's very understandable.

And I think we'll see a lot more of it.

So one, again, I do believe in thoughtful policy.

So one, I think as a country builds abundance, you do have a responsibility to create a safety net around that abundance to a certain degree.

Like things that we count as rights today weren't rights 200 years ago.

The reason for that is if we had tried to install them as rights 200 years ago, everything would have broken.

But today...

It is the basic cost, which is you grow less quickly as an economy is worth having a social net for people.

So like, I will say that as a portion of my belief on the political matrix, I sit certainly low, but not all the way low on the libertarian scale.

That said, I think a push for socialism comes from a crisis of agency.

when people feel like they can pull themselves up from the bootstraps.

And I think the feel is important here and the actual ability to do so is important here.

I think both have to be true for an argument for capitalism to be made by the vast majority of America.

And so I think first and foremost, we're having a crisis of agency in many ways.

And I think portions of this are true because it is harder to do so than I think it was 50 years ago.

If you track the cost of a house compared to the average salary, it's wildly hard to do so.

And so, one, I think we have to fix that.

Now, I will not argue fixing that via the government.

I think we need to fix that with excellent technology that makes it cheaper to build houses, that allows just net abundance to increase.

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