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

The issue is, it's very hard for an individual to have agency in the system.

If 399 million people think they don't have agency and one person thinks they have agency, then the system breaks.

And so you actually want as many people as possible to believe that they have the most agency possible.

And when enough people believe that, they get agency.

Hopefully it needs to be a tool for starters and not a weapon.

I think it really, really comes down to people like you actually having me on and then hopefully also pushing this to the greatest degree that like we have agency.

We live in a democracy.

We live in a capitalist system.

I completely agree with you.

A1 problem, graft.

A2 problem, competence.

And there's a crisis of both in government.

And so we live in a democracy.

We can vote.

We can talk a lot and create discourse that gets other people to vote.

But we need to vote principally, I think, in the near term against those two things.

there's probably things that come lower than that.

Like we need to figure out how we're going to deal with AI as a country.

And there needs to be very thoughtful policy written around that.

And that's half.

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