Matt Gialich

So one of the common questions I get asked whenever I talk to any reporter that lives in Europe is how I'm going to share the wealth with the whole world.

And I'll say on your podcast, my honest answer is I'm fucking not.

Love it.

I mean, like, I don't understand this logic.

So, you know, it's this kind of, man, it's a trap that we love to fall into is this like, oh, if you're successful, we want to benefit.

But if you're not successful, we're not willing to take the risk.

And so what I'll say is like, hey, France, if you want to invest in Astroforge now, you can benefit from it.

But you don't get to say at the end of the day, once we're successful, that, oh, we knew all along and now you need to share the wealth.

Absolutely not.

I do not think that is the best way for advancement of humans.

Incentive alignment is a big deal in everything you do, right?

And if you're not going to align incentives, then I'm not interested in talking to you.

And, like, I think the world needs to take a look at this.

You know, for the last 50 years, capitalism has greatly improved the standard of living to... I was thinking about this on the plane flight over here, Sean.

Even though I'm in a plane and I'm at 40,000 feet or whatever in this little tiny seat like this, my standard of living is still probably higher than a king in the 1600s.

Not from a volume perspective, but I could have hot water, I could have cold water, I could use the bathroom and it flushes and there's not some dude at the bottom scrubbing it.

We have toilet paper.

We have advanced so much as a human species and it's exponentially increasing.

And that's because of the way we govern ourselves and we've progressed into the future.

Capitalism is the dominant force behind that.