Valuetainment - November 07, 2026


Pete Buttigieg WARNS Capitalism Could Threaten Democracy

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00:00:00.000 Your definition of what capitalism is, what socialism is, what communism is.
00:00:04.580 What is your definition of each of those three?
00:00:06.760 So I think capitalism is that the market allocates capital and most transactions take place in
00:00:14.200 a market that is structured, but what we would consider a free market, that you make sure
00:00:20.080 you have the government there to make sure there's things like property rights, also
00:00:24.560 to make sure that you don't have things like monopolies that cheat the system.
00:00:27.640 but the fundamentally are we have a market economy communism is pretty much the opposite
00:00:34.020 government controls the means of production if you work for any number of industries you are a
00:00:40.780 government employee even if you're making cheerios or tires or whatever and socialism is a word that
00:00:48.140 i think is actually losing meaning over time because usually when i hear it it's being thrown
00:00:51.900 around in politics so i i hesitate to offer a definition for socialism because it's been
00:00:56.440 twisted beyond all recognition by, by politics. Do you, uh, what is the pro of each in your
00:01:03.440 opinion? I mean, look, the intention of communism is to create equality. The problem is, uh, first
00:01:10.020 of all, that doesn't actually happen because you have corruption. And the other problem is, uh,
00:01:14.640 even, even to the extent that it's equal, it's, it's a pretty terrible way to live, right?
00:01:20.020 The pros of capitalism is you got more production, build more wealth, grows more. The problem is
00:01:26.420 you get these concentrations of power that happen. And I think it's happening right now
00:01:31.940 with an extremely high level of inequality, both measured by income and measured by wealth.
00:01:37.620 Usually when you have a Republic, and I'm going back to the Roman empire,
00:01:40.720 when you have a Republic that hits a level of inequality, like what we've got right now,
00:01:44.460 it doesn't last very long as a Republic. And so for capitalism to work, you got to have certain
00:01:50.360 guardrails around it. You got to make sure that nobody can get extreme amounts of power.
00:01:55.620 And part of the problem with money in politics, where I think you and I broadly might agree, is that it allows a concentration of wealth to turn into a concentration of power.
00:02:05.840 And then, of course, people can use that to gain even more wealth and even more power.
00:02:08.860 I think that's happening right now, whether it's the corruption that we see in the Trump administration or whether it's just the thumb on the scale that industries are able to put in elections by using that money to try to make sure that their preferred candidate wins.
00:02:21.300 And I hope we take that money out.
00:02:23.280 And if that's ever on the ballot, I'm voting for it.
00:02:25.560 Awesome.
00:02:26.340 They're doing it in Montana right now, actually.
00:02:27.800 If it's out there, I've been saying, I had Paul, is it Paul Manafort?
00:02:30.840 Is he, who was the lobbyist?
00:02:32.860 Was it, am I saying the name correctly?
00:02:34.200 Yeah, I think so.
00:02:34.860 He was, yeah, he was one of the guys that was in it.
00:02:38.040 I said, why don't we take the money out of politics?
00:02:40.360 This was like five years ago, maybe four years ago.
00:02:42.140 He says, well, if the other side does it, sure.
00:02:44.520 But neither side wants to do it.
00:02:46.160 So we don't, you know, if you do it, you can get a lot of people that are going to want to entertain that. 0.74
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