Simon Sinek

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

We can debate where the guardrails are, but guardrails are good.

Sure, sure, sure.

Yeah, just look at what's been happening over the past 30, 40 years.

The rise of populism, the rise of strongman leaders, the cynicism about democracy.

And it's not that democracy or capitalism are bad.

It's that this version of democracy, this version of capitalism, not democracy, this version of capitalism that we have

that was largely engineered in the 80s and 90s by people like Jack Welch, and Republican and Democratic presidents at the time, is woefully imbalanced, and it is lopsided.

The stock market used to be a place that the average working American could share in the wealth of the nation, and now the stock market has become the bastion for the few.

um you know um ceos who are incentivized by the price of an equity work hard to make other people rich um and often don't include the workers or worse use the workers to help balance those books though the use of mass layoffs which was a relatively modern phenomenon didn't exist in the united states prior to the 1980s really didn't insist i mean there were layoffs but not to balance the books they were used for existential reasons

Like, we're going bankrupt, we have to do something drastic.

Right.

Versus, oh, we missed our numbers, you lose your job.

Wow.

That didn't exist.

And so we have a very woefully, uh,

a flawed version of capitalism that is not the capitalism that made America great, nor is it the kind of capitalism that Thomas Jefferson was enamored by, as written by Adam Smith.

And I think that disparity, and we're seeing it play out now

the strikes, the writer's strike and the actor's strike, which is people working hard to make a small group of people very wealthy and being left out.

Nobody minds that a CEO is highly paid.