Oct 14, 2026 · 33 min · 15 segments
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You know, one of the things that comes to mind, you and I both understand what the free market means and free market capitalism is.
as limited of a role of government and by government from a regulatory standpoint as is needed to provide for individual safety, ensuring that products meet certain standards.
It's an exchange of goods and services, voluntary, where both sides of the transaction benefit.
Obviously, you're a free market guy, and yet there's a young generation today.
They don't have a problem with socialists, depending on the different surveys you're looking at.
What's happened where socialism seems to be attractive to that generation? And where we look at this nation that we're in, the freest, most prosperous nation on the face of the earth, it's a place of innovation, where inventions are made here more than any other place in the world.
And yet we're seeing generations, not just generations, younger generations embracing socialism, but we're seeing democratic socialists winning the ballot box.
But what are some of your thoughts regarding why that younger generation? Yeah, with this
moment, there is some sort of intellectual appeal to this argument that's being made by socialism.
I think that it's always important to distinguish between what individuals say and what they do.
And my sense is that the vast majority of those young people who are espousing or opening their minds to this idea resurgence or reinvigoration of the socialist ideal, they're still engaging in free market enterprise every day, every moment of the day.
And so they I believe that there is been or there has been less of an experience of understanding exactly what socialism is and what damage it has done historically than we have seen in recent generations.
However, when they're voting with their wallets, when they're voting with their pocketbook, more often than not, they are fully embracing the free market by purchasing iPhones and using these various products and services that come across our smartphones.
And so Helping them understand what that disconnect is between where their thoughts are and what their actual actions are, I think, is an opportunity for us to help them kind of reframe and rethink about what this challenge is.
You know, one of the things that comes to mind, you and I both understand what the free market means and free market capitalism is.
as limited of a role of government and by government from a regulatory standpoint as is needed to provide for individual safety, ensuring that products meet certain standards.
It's an exchange of goods and services, voluntary, where both sides of the transaction benefit.
Obviously, you're a free market guy, and yet there's a young generation today.
They don't have a problem with socialists, depending on the different surveys you're looking at.
What's happened where socialism seems to be attractive to that generation? And where we look at this nation that we're in, the freest, most prosperous nation on the face of the earth, it's a place of innovation, where inventions are made here more than any other place in the world.
And yet we're seeing generations, not just generations, younger generations embracing socialism, but we're seeing democratic socialists winning the ballot box.
But what are some of your thoughts regarding why that younger generation? Yeah, with this
moment, there is some sort of intellectual appeal to this argument that's being made by socialism.
I think that it's always important to distinguish between what individuals say and what they do.
And my sense is that the vast majority of those young people who are espousing or opening their minds to this idea resurgence or reinvigoration of the socialist ideal, they're still engaging in free market enterprise every day, every moment of the day.
And so they I believe that there is been or there has been less of an experience of understanding exactly what socialism is and what damage it has done historically than we have seen in recent generations.
However, when they're voting with their wallets, when they're voting with their pocketbook, more often than not, they are fully embracing the free market by purchasing iPhones and using these various products and services that come across our smartphones.
And so Helping them understand what that disconnect is between where their thoughts are and what their actual actions are, I think, is an opportunity for us to help them kind of reframe and rethink about what this challenge is.
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