“You know, you start talking about a social compact between the people at the bottom of the pyramid and the people at the top, and that’s how you ground a society, and people look at you and say, “Are you talking about sharing wealth?” You know? “Yeah.” I want to— Listen, capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it’s imperfect, but we’re stuck with it. And thank God we have that in the toolbox. But if you don’t manage it in some way that you incorporate all of society, maybe not to the same degree, but if everybody’s not benefiting on some level and if you don’t have a sense of shared purpose, national purpose, then all it is a pyramid scheme. All it is, is— who’s standing on top of whose throat?” (emphasis mine)
