"America Is About To Crash Into A Brick Wall" | David Friedberg PT 1
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Welcome to another power-packed episode of Impact Theory, I’m Tom Bilyeu!
In this episode, I’m joined by David Friedberg, a self-described “extreme optimist” who believes that capitalism – specifically entrepreneurship – is the fastest way to improve human productivity and potential, unlocking a more abundant and sustainable future for all.
Today we’re getting into the economic challenges the U.S. face, specifically the risks associated with high debt relative to GDP, and how excessive taxation to service this debt can stifle investment and have lasting detrimental effects on economic growth.
We explore the transformative potential of gene editing, including promises for agricultural advancement and just be the answer to sustainable nutrition for a rapidly growing global population.
We also examine the balance between technological progress and regulatory oversight, the societal divide over adopting new innovations, and how AI could redefine creativity and productivity.
If you're serious about innovation and understanding the future of our economy, you won’t want to miss this episode.
This is just Part 1 of our conversation, so make sure you don’t miss Part 2 of this convo for even more wisdom from David Friedberg.
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| 0:00.0 | You could ask yourself, what do we celebrate? |
| 0:02.0 | My income isn't going up as an individual. I'm not making more money, but this guy's got $200 billion. The US doesn't know paying. Like, we have no idea. There's a world where we embrace technology, where we say we're not going to be fearful of loss, but we're going to embrace the risk, because the upside is worth it. We can go to the moon. We can go to Mars. We can cure cancer. Some |
| 0:23.6 | people will die, but we can do it. David Friedberg, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm very, very glad to have you. I've been tracking your thinking for a while, and while you were |
| 0:36.6 | often quiet in the All In podcast, I'm always hanging on your every word, especially when it comes to the economy. So tell me, why are you a single-issue voter when it comes to our national debt? Right now, the U.S. is a car driving into a wall with our foot all the way down on the gas. |
| 0:58.4 | We are proposing, the federal administration is proposing a $7 trillion budget next year. |
| 1:04.3 | We have $33 trillion of national debt. |
| 1:08.6 | That number has swelled since COVID and in the years following due to the launch |
| 1:13.7 | of new programs and other stimulatory effects spending by the federal government. And the problem |
| 1:19.1 | with having too high of a national debt relative to national GDP is the way that a government pays their debt is by taxing their economy, |
| 1:31.3 | taxing their GDP. And there's a natural limit to how much economically you can actually tax |
| 1:37.5 | the economy. Once you increase taxes too high, investment declines. Once you tax investments too high on individuals, people leave. |
| 1:47.1 | We saw this with the launch of the wealth tax in France. There's an attrition of capital, a hiding |
| 1:51.4 | of capital. All of these factors aren't necessarily about people being bad and doing bad things. |
| 1:56.1 | They're just natural economic forces that we've seen play out many times in the past. |
| 2:00.3 | So there's a certain natural |
| 2:01.7 | limit to how much debt government can actually take on. Do we have a sense of what that limit is? |
| 2:07.4 | Well, some people would argue it's somewhere between 100 and 150 to, you know, maybe up to 200% |
| 2:12.9 | of GDP, but 100 and 150% is really where things are sustainable. Now, the U.S. is a very unique outlier in, you know, the history of global economies. |
| 2:22.6 | But there has been, and, you know, I talked about this on our podcast years ago, a set of studies. |
| 2:27.9 | And Ray Dalio kind of captured a bunch of data together in his book about the changing world order and the economic cycles that we've seen |
| 2:37.3 | historically six times in the last 500 years we've seen these sorts of things. Have you had Ray |
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