Noah Smith

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Prof G Markets · America’s Economy Is Entering a New Era — ft. Noah Smith · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

There's no way to avoid these fights.

And it's baked into our system.

And so, yes, it's happening, but it won't be a thunderbolt that happens all at once.

is that the main thing it's absolutely part of what we need because when you have benefit cuts that hurts you know i mean if you're rich and you get your social security benefit cut benefits cut do you care no um but if you're poor and you get your social security benefits cut you starve like that's all you have and so obviously the more we cut benefits which we'll need to do to maintain the solvency of the system the more redistribution we'll need to do to prevent human suffering

So the insolvency of Social Security creates a greater need for redistribution across income gaps.

And so I think that's absolutely one thing we need to do.

we obviously need to be looking for ways to boost the fertility rate and to continue bringing immigrants without freaking people out.

We need to do both those things, especially high-skilled immigrants, add lots and lots and lots to our revenue, to our coffers.

They're a huge fiscal plus.

So we need to look at how to do more of that, which we're really not doing right now.

It's the opposite of what we're doing right now.

And we need, so we're going to need more redistribution.

We're going to need to tighten our belts and do more redistribution at the same time in order to keep the system solvent and keep it supporting old people and have old people not be synonymous with poor people as they used to be.

And at the same time, we need to be looking to address the root causes of the problem here for the long term.

My response is, what's your alternative?

What's your better idea?

They have nothing.

Nobody who just like, well, that would be socialism has any says any alternative other than just like, you know, more money for my bank account.

It's all words.

Yeah, you're exactly right.

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