You're like ignoring all the benefits, right?

This is the thing that's like the alternative is stagnation.

I want to know what your alternative is Europe is stagnant.

They don't have innovation.

So the Europeans have this problem.

We don't.

And there's some, you know, negatives, which you point out.

But there are huge positives that everybody ignores.

I'm Bethany McLean.

Did you ever have a moment of doubt about capitalism

and whether greed's a good idea?

And I'm Luigi Zengales.

We have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor.

And this is Capital Isn't, a podcast about what is working in capitalism.

First of all, tell me, is there some society you know that doesn't run on greed?

And most importantly, what isn't?

We ought to do better by the people that get left behind.

I don't think we shouldn't kill the capital system in the

process. If you look at the macroeconomic data right now, the U.S. economy looks incredible. GDP is up.

Unemployment is historically low. But yet, if you ask the average American, they'll tell you a

completely different story. Which beg the question, are they right? Every week on this show, we look at the specific

pain points where capitalists stop walking. But are we facing something much more existential?

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