Chamath: I was wrong. The economy is broken.
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Brief Summary
Chamath says the election reflects voters’ rejection of an economy that rewards asset owners while leaving wage earners behind.
Key points
- Chamath admits he was wrong. He says the election made clear that he had misunderstood what voters were trying to signal.
- Asset owners and wage earners live different realities. He contrasts how asset owners have benefited across changing economic conditions with the struggles of wage earners.
- A broken economy, not an ideological shift. Chamath argues that voters’ frustration is a repudiation of the economy, not a victory for either political extreme.
Transcript
I got it totally wrong. >> Okay, unpack. >> What I don't think I understood clearly enough and I think that this election has made extremely clear is that since co we have moved past political ideology and I want to say this again. I do not think Democrats or Republicans matter. That is my real takeaway after this election. There is a central block of people that vote the preient issues of our time. What are these people voting for? I think what they are shouting now and they were trying to signal and now they are shouting is a broad-based belief that the economy has completely decoupled from reality and is broken. The economic reality in America is
broken. There is a small percentage of people, the four of us on this pod and all of our friends who are the asset owners of America. And we have benefited in every weather condition. When rates were zero, we benefited because we were able to build our businesses with very cheap capital. When rates were high, we benefited because we had pricing power. And in every condition in between, we've all managed to continue to accumulate and grow assets. But we are few and far between. And then there's everybody else who are wage earners. And the structural capacity of the American economy to support and grow wage earners is broken. I don't think this has anything to do
with socialism. I don't think the far-left won particularly more than they were expected. I don't think the far-right won particularly more than was expected. This is a complete and total repudiation about the state of the economy. The economy is broken.
