Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
2 of 4 lanes rest on fewer than 5 quotes and are marked thin. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 19 Dec 2019 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
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Bill Gurley
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7 Apr 2017 – 29 May 2026
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- Stanley Druckenmiller 3 thin 19 Dec 2019 – 6 Jan 2020 +0 d
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Brad Gerstner
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27 Oct 2020 – 4 Dec 2025
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David Friedberg
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12 May 2026 – 12 May 2026
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The chronologysourced and dated, oldest first
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Bill Gurley
Gurley argues the most regulated US industries like finance, telecom, and healthcare become the least capitalistic.
“what happens is capitalism and democracy evolve over time, especially in The US federal system. The most regulated industries become the ones that are least capitalistic. And so finance, telecom, healthcare are completely,”
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“So 1,000,000,000 people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last twenty years. Why? Because obviously India and China adopted a free market model.”
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Stanley Druckenmiller
Druckenmiller argues that for every billionaire created, 400,000 people exited extreme poverty over the same period.
“And with regard to all this other talk about billionaires and so forth. So during that same period, you've created 2,500 billionaires, but you've brought a billion people out of poverty.”
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“Let's just take poverty in The United States. It was 26% a few decades ago. It was 16% in the financial crisis, and it's 13% now. It's at an all time low.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner argues backlash against capitalism stems from technology revolution displacing human labor, not capitalism itself.
“I would argue that's not really a feature of capitalism so much as it's a feature of a technology revolution.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner predicts global wealth will increase but distribution will become more concentrated due to technology.
“Global wealth, as measured by the mountain of labor and capital that exists in the world, the conveniences that will be available to people will be better than they've ever been before, but the distribution of those will be way more concentrated as we've already seen.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner warns AI and ML will increase productivity but concentrate wealth distribution even more than today.
“Global wealth, as measured by the mountain of labor and capital that exists in the world, the conveniences that will be available to people will be better than they've ever been before, but the distribution of those will be way more concentrated”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner cites that 44% of Americans aged 18-29 believe socialism is superior to capitalism.
“Joe, among the age group 18 29, 44% of that group believe socialism is a superior form of organizing government than capitalism.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner says the accounts would grow to $12,000 by age 10, giving kids ownership stakes in major companies.
“At 10 years old, you'll have $12,000 in that account. You see that you own a little bit of Tesla, of of Microsoft, of UnitedHealthcare.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley argues Deng Xiaoping brought 500 million people out of poverty through capitalism, more than any altruist.
“Ding Xiaoping, who brought capitalism to China and brought 500,000,000, 500,000,000 people out of poverty.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley argues Deng Xiaoping brought 500 million people out of poverty through capitalism, more than any altruist or socialist.
“No other human being, not not the most no, no, you know, not Mother Teresa, not like no altruist, no socialist has come anywhere close to this number that was done merely by unleashing the human potential that was latent inside of China by allowing for idea sharing and commerce”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner says US GDP per capita is 100x Nicaragua's today versus equal 100 years ago.
“The today, the GDP per capita of The United States to Nicaragua is a 100 x. Why? Right? We're living at a time where I think there's a lot of controversy about capitalism.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner claims all human GDP growth occurred after America's founding and wealth of nations publication.
“So we have two thousand years, you have no GDP growth. And it all happens to magically line up with, you know, the founding of America, the wealth of nations, limited government, entrepreneurialism, etcetera.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner says less than half of Americans under 40 believe in capitalism, prompting his proposal.
“Okay? He said the Marxists are going to hate this because every child from birth is going to be aligned with capital Right?”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner says less than half of under-40s believe in capitalism, making private accounts critical.
“Less than half of people under the age of 40 believe in it. Okay? Gallup, Pew, Axios, we have all the data.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner says 70% of Americans don't participate in market upside and less than half under 40 favor capitalism.
“They don't have accounts that compound. They feel left out. They feel left behind. Less than half of people under the age of 40 have a favorable view of capitalism.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner asserts less than half of people under 40 believe in capitalism.
“There's a reason less than half of people under the age of 40 believe in capitalism, Ed.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley argues invisible hand capitalism with hyper competition is actively happening in China despite communist label.
“So I think the thing that a lot of people in Silicon Valley love about capitalism is this notion of the invisible hand and competition that leads to innovation and best practice, and the winners rise up and they're better for it. That is happening there.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley argues capitalism and democracy corrupt each other over time, with most broken industries being most regulated.
“No, I think it's gotten worse over time. I made up this statement once that capitalism and democracy corrupt each other over time. Like at the starting state, everything's fine.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley states capitalism and democracy corrupt each other over time as they commingle.
“I made up this statement once that capitalism and democracy corrupt each other over time. Like at the starting state, everything's fine.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley states capitalism and democracy corrupt each other over time through prolonged commingling.
“capitalism and democracy corrupt each other over time. Like at the starting state, everything's fine. But as they get to commingle for a really, really, really long period of time”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg frames the anti-capitalism argument as compounding advantages eventually making it hard for others to compete effectively.
“The problem with compounding in any is it eventually eats all of the whatever is in the system or it makes it hard for others to compete in that system or participate effectively in that system. And that's the argument that's being made today against capitalism.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley lists specific metrics showing technology and capitalism drove massive human progress since 1891 despite warnings against them.
“All those things happened because of technology, innovation, and capitalism, which is exactly what Leo the thirteenth was warning against.”
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Where they overlapsame programme, same subject
- All-In Podcast also carries Bill Gurley and David Friedberg on this subject, at different times.