Two speakers reflect on how the world has improved from 2016 to 2024: the S&P 500 is up roughly 3x, GDP doubled, and half a billion people were added globally. They argue that optimism costs little and makes business owners more generous and willing to invest.
3x
2x (speaker claim).
About half a billion people.
Does anyone remember four.
Years ago, masks and vaccines and race riots? Do you remember what was happening?
It's a really good point. So what has happened in eight years? One term of Trump, one year of Democratic control?
So the world.
From 2016 to now, when the S&P 500 is up 3x GDP is up 2 is up 50%. We added half a billion people.
To the world.
We made innovations in AI.
And all of a sudden, I just saw a different story. I started to see.
Okay, let's zoom out.
It almost doesn't.
Matter who wins if there's a pandemic.
For two years.
It doesn't matter if there's two recessions, which we've had in.
The last eight years.
Over time, things expand. The more pessimistic I am, the more closed I am, the less I feel like I have to give, the more I feel like I have to contribute, the less that I am going to invest in that.
Project, the less happy.
I'm going to be, the less loving I'm going to be. And so I have just found that betting on an optimistic.
Future has.
Very little downside.
