Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)
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What Are the Most Socially Valuable Delusions?
Comedy is so segregated from the rest of your aesthetic if it is, yesto, that one is harder. So i've said, like you shakespeare, i love accept the comedy, which just isn't very funny to me. I was sent this question earlier this morning, and i quote, what are the most socially valuable delusions, or shared erroneous beliefs? That is a good one. Probably a better answer is the delusion that money will buy happiness. There is an enormous amount of progress that is caused by people desperately going and trying to get rich. And i think the actual psychological evidence is the money won't actually to all, not much happiness, but the things they produce
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