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#52 - Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society

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I've Learned a Lot More From Those People Who Don't Specialize in Politics

Solis: Some people are just, like, less intelligent or they're never going to make the effort to to inform themselves. And yet, they will still be very keen on voting and h that, well, they could thaa add some noise to to the system. Soli: It's precisely this attitude of being of persistent epistemic superiority that leads people into actually going down intellectual culdisacs. He says if people had more of a democratic spirit in their conversations, they would actually be making a lot more intellectual progress than they do now.

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