Pete Buttigieg

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028 · 30 Oct 2025 podcast

One thing is to look at the system and say, how can the system not be more modern?

We need to make better use of the dollars that go into the system to have more up-to-date communications infrastructure, to have more controllers who are both well-equipped and well-rested.

And the FAA has got to do better on that.

The other way to look at it is consider the civilizational achievement that is aviation safety in this country.

So it's easy to grumble.

And I grumble and more than grumble.

I mean, I got pretty upset with a lot of things about how aviation works as a passenger, which is why we push airlines so hard on passenger protections.

But, you know, just in the four years I was secretary...

We had about 4 billion passenger employments.

So 4 billion times somebody got on an airplane, right?

And zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of that 4 billion.

In other words, what this kind of clunky, imperfect federal government has achieved

is a standard of safety on a form of transportation that involves being propelled through the air almost at the speed of sound by flammable liquids miles above the ground.

And frankly, you and I are, one of us is more likely, not to be flip about it, but one of us is more likely to randomly die of natural causes during this taping than to be involved in a commercial airline fatality.

Let me talk about that, but I want to park that to the side because we should probably talk about what happened there.

I hate entrepreneurs.

I don't think most Democrats do.

But I know what you mean about the vibes.

And we should get to the piece about Elon particularly.

But on the substance of the question you're raising.

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