"We are at risk of the whole thing collapsing," he says. "I actually own a Deutschmark from the Weimar Republic, and the number billion is written out in zeros on it." Money enables strangers all over the world to cooperate with each other, writes David Frum. But do you think money should be replaced by something else that has a greater tangibility?
How did humans come to create society? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of “Sapiens” & “Unstoppable Us,” discuss our species’ ability to cooperate, the role of artificial intelligence, and more.
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