Hello everyone, I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this no sponsor this week. Now as always,

if you want to help the show, you can go to patreon.com slash philosophize this. You can always go

through the Amazon banner, but what makes this week special? Is that if you collect philosophize

this t-shirts or if you're one of the many people that requested a t-shirt with the actual Thailees logo

of the show on it, well we have one of those now. Well, really we have a t-spring campaign,

long story short, it's like a Kickstarter. Two days left to buy it. If not enough shirts get

ordered, they don't even print it. You don't get charged. If that's something you're even remotely

interested in, front page of philosophize this.org. There's a banner. Click on it. Anyway, let's get

on to the program. So let's all imagine something real quick. Let's imagine that you're walking

down the street with a camera on a microphone and you're interviewing just random people in an

average city in the modern United States. You know, just the first person you run into walking their

dog down the road. Statistically speaking, if you ask that person the question, which do you think

is a better economic system? Capitalism or communism? What do you think they would say? And by that,

I mean the economic ideology espoused by communism. I realize it's much larger than that. Point is,

what do you think they'd say? Well, I don't think it's a very controversial prediction to make that

most Americans are going to say capitalism. I was born into a capitalist system. Look at all the

prosperity. It's afforded me and my family. Look at all the innovations that have come as a result

of capitalism. And capitalism, we have sprawling mansions in the Napa Valley and communism, you guys

got refrigerator boxes to live in. And capitalism, we have the Super Bowl and communism, you guys have

who can chase the rat underneath the dumpster, the fastest and get dinner. Now, maybe that's a little

extreme. But you know what's interesting is that for several years of my adult life, this is not that

far away from what I thought the differences were between the two. I mean, I don't think most

...