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This Week in Startups · 2024-12-05 · 82 min · 16,026 words

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Socialism is garbage. Capitalism plus democracy is the best operating system humanity has ever come out with. When you and I look at this capitalist and democracy as Americans, we go, Well, of course you wanna live in the country. That is at war with itself, is fighting, it's messy, it's sloppy. This election, the last election election before that.

And every election before that. It's a mess here. It feels crazy. But The economy

Keeps beating everything else out there. Why? Because we believe in the fundamental tenet of competition. And that Running from competition. Is a mistake.

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