Pete Buttigieg
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1,193 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 10 May
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I think it's really important to think of this as...
Not like, should it be government or should it be the private sector, but which parts should government do and which parts should the private sector do?
So to me, like the classic example is just the smartphone, right?
I cannot imagine that a smartphone designed by the federal government would be a pretty thing or that an app designed by, matter of fact,
Having been in the military and dealt with, I guess you could call them apps, like some of the kind of software that you have to deal with, even if it's done by contractors, it's kind of done in a way that you can tell is designed by the government and it's not pretty.
On the other hand, when you talk about capital allocation, the federal government literally invented the internet.
Right?
So there's things, there's certain trillion dollar ideas that the private sector just won't do because it doesn't pencil or because of whatever market failure is there.
That's where you need government.
That's things like basic research.
That's things like filling in gaps, especially on network effects like broadband, EV charging networks, that sort of thing, where the bulk of it can be done quite well by the private sector, but there are pieces that just don't click unless you have federal involvement.
And that's the attitude we try to take on things like EVs.
Like,
I never thought that we were going to create a government EV or that you even needed the government to make sure that a transition to electric happened.
But we did believe that for it to be made in America, for it to happen as quickly as we wanted, and for it to reach people who maybe couldn't afford those initial buy-in costs who we really wanted to help out, that's where there's a role for policy.
That's where there's a role for funding.
Look, I love people being entrepreneurial, creating something and doing well by it.
I mean, that's the basic idea.
Yeah, if you create a monopoly, I might not like it.
If you hurt other people, I might not like it.
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