Lauren Good: It sounds like you’re a little bit in line with the successful tech entrepreneurs polled by a junior college in Palo Alto about being libertarians.
Michael Culver: No, I go further left than that, I’d say.
Zoe Shaffer: He thinks he might be Yang Gang.
Lauren Good: Oh, Yang Gang. I once interviewed Andrew Yang.
Michael Culver: Andrew Yang, he was one of the first vocal advocates of universal basic income in the political arena, wasn’t he?
Lauren Good: Yes, he really was.
Michael Culver: Well, I don’t know anything else about it, so I can’t say if I’m actually Yang Gang or not.
Lauren Good: Mike is just going to start another third party for UBI.
Michael Culver: oh boy I always say that there is no government like government.
Lauren Good: do you say
Michael Culver: Well, Lauren, I’ll bring it back to you. Where do you think it is going in the future?
Lauren Good: I’m really struggling to say where this is all going politically because I’m so confused by what’s going on in politics right now and still trying to sort it out. I think there are going to be more factions of self-styled libertarianism and people choosing certain ideals from the left and the right. But I think the original word is losing its meaning.
Michael Culver: agreed I like this new word, libertarian.
Lauren Good: Yes, but again, this is from 2020 and things are changing fast.
Michael Culver: Zoe, what’s yours?
Zoe Shaffer: I think we’re going to see more privatization than ever before. Right now, we have people like Elon Musk, who is supposed to collaborate with Vivek Ramaswamy on the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and he wants to get rid of the Department of Education. So I’m guessing we’re going to see private sector solutions to things that used to be solved by government.
Lauren Good: And on to our next episode Uncanny ValleyWe are going to uncover all the successful companies that are led by two CEOs at the same time.
