Is Capitalism Reformable, or Just Socialism-Signaling?

• 1:23:23Changed perspective on socialism in recent years, now more sympathetic to free-market values than five or six years ago.
• 1:24:22Capitalism is flawed but could be regulated better through stricter environmental controls and incentives rather than penalties.
• 1:24:49Young people use socialism as a signifier—rose emoji in Twitter bio—without thinking through the logistics of who'd actually run things.
• 1:25:19Federal and state governments have repeatedly shown they can't manage industry as well as the free market does, citing ventilators and broken unemployment systems.
• 1:25:57Wealthy people evade taxes by dumping money into real estate through shell corporations, driving up housing costs and pricing out longtime residents.
• 1:26:44When billionaires turn cities into money-laundering schemes, it fills people with anxiety that gets redirected into race resentment, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.
• 1:27:34Money's impact on politics is absurd—Bloomberg spent billions and lost, Koch brothers had massive war chests, yet it may matter less than local manipulation.
• 1:28:33Concerned about regulation even though he's not a Marxist, because capitalism in America has been married so closely to the country's identity.
• 1:28:54Wealthy people don't care when Detroit collapses, the Rust Belt hollows out, or Chicago's South Side suffers—their loyalty is to economic architecture, not country.

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