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#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Lesson of the Robust Takeover

There is something about human nature as the old cliché goes that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It does something to their head. The first person you kill, the second people you kill, for some reason you lose your ability, the compassion for other humans. So in that way, it seems like the lesson, at least of this part of the human history until the robust takeover, is that the economic freedom free markets and protecting those should be protected.

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