The more you believe in the societal benefits of economic growth, the more meaning (& respect) you’ll find in work that boosts growth but doesn’t feel as directly rewarding—or look as noble—as, say, teaching (e.g. most finance, b2b SaaS, some crypto speculation).
And vice versa.
And vice versa.
As such, Stubborn Attachments, Tyler Cowen’s uninhibited defense of economic growth, is an important book to wrestle with
Check it out here: amazon.com/dp/B07G9DFC8W/…
Prepping for an interview with him by reading this: medium.com/conversations-…
Check it out here: amazon.com/dp/B07G9DFC8W/…
Prepping for an interview with him by reading this: medium.com/conversations-…
unrelated side note: I like w/ @tylercowen's idea that we'd benefit from being more critical of alcohol, or at least more critical relative to other vices.
Taken from this fantastic interview: medium.com/conversations-…
Taken from this fantastic interview: medium.com/conversations-…
@tylercowen on how to be more open minded:
“we should try to learn from those who offend us..if there’s a (reasonable) person in the public sphere + they offend you, you may want to become attracted to that person like a magnet + ask what, if anything, you can learn from them”
“we should try to learn from those who offend us..if there’s a (reasonable) person in the public sphere + they offend you, you may want to become attracted to that person like a magnet + ask what, if anything, you can learn from them”
Martin Gurri hypothesis: “the internet makes things so transparent that the people lose faith in the elites.”
