- Two days ago, I went to a new place
to get my morning coffee.
It was a place that served
really high-end coffee,
and they served bulletproof coffee
with, like, MCT oil, and grass-fed butter,
and all these fancy things in the coffee.
And the woman at the counter, she asks me,
"Hey, what are you up to?
"Are you on your way to work?"
And I said yeah, I'm
going to the office today.
And she says, "Well, what
do you do for a living?"
I said, I'm the CEO of Capitalism.com.
And she kind of froze up for a second,
and she got a little bit defensive.
I could tell that I had said a word
that she wasn't quite comfortable with.
And she asked me a question, she said,
"Well, are you pro-capitalism
or anti-capitalism?"
And I said, it would
be a little bit ironic
if I owned Capitalism.com
and was anti-capitalist.
So we started to talk
about this a little bit,
and danced around the topic,
and it was clear her button
was pushed a little bit.
- [Passenger] Triggered.
(driver laughs)
- She was triggered, and
she says, "Oh I don't know,
"I think we could do better."
I was like, could do better?
Where do you think you get
your damn MCT oil from?
You think, like, the
benevolence of someone
is giving you your MCT oil?
Why do you think you have an
abundance of grass-fed butter?
You think we can sustainably
get grass-fed butter
without a for-profit system?
(speaks inaudibly)
The next day, I went into
a different coffee shop,
I was meeting with someone
that I was interviewing,
and it was this coffee shop
I had never been to before
and we got there when
it was supposed to open.
And the shop owner was
late, like 15 minutes late.
We stood outside in the
cold while we waited
for the shop owner to get to the store.
And the person I was interviewing
turns to me and says,
"Look, I wanted to meet here
"'cause the owner's a personal friend,
"but she's never on time,"
and watched three people
try to open the door and it was locked
so they couldn't get in.
When we finally got in, this coffee shop
was also a vintage clothing
store, which is cool,
but a little bit of an odd combination,
not something you would
normally see marketed.
And when I ordered my drink,
I ordered it with almond milk,
and it curdled.
The shop owner came over and she told us
that business was really struggling.
- [Passenger] Hmm.
- What do you know?
And I hear so many
people say we don't need
a for-profit system
because we would just
have passion businesses.
In fact, that was the
argument of the woman
at the first coffee shop.
She said, "I think we could do better.
"I think business would
still exist if it was,
"you know, there'd be passion businesses."
A passion business is one
where there is no incentive
for you to do a good job.
Capitalism is the incentivized
way where we are forced
to serve one another.
It's why good products win.
It's why we have progress,
it's why you have access
to the goods and services that you want.
We don't get it because of the benevolence
or the kindness of the
person who makes them.
It is out of their own self-interest
and that's what allows you
to have freedom of choice.
My fear for my generation
is that we will miss that,
and then we will destroy it.
That's why I feel called
to represent capitalism,
because it is the best
possible shot we have
of creating the change that
we want to see in this world.
