Your Life to Date - Is This Tiny?

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When you focus on your life to date, pianel, it puts things in perspective. And if my facebook feet or my twitter feet is full of these little nagging thorns of dissatisfaction, yes, i might start to think i've a bad life. So this information will play on that, whether it's faccineso other things, sot as. Just to tell you that he we live in under in the tyranny. Why? Because so and so happened.

A language, a flag, a national anthem and shared history—like a heart that has to pump harder to support a heavier body, the bigger a nation gets, the harder to curate an identity. Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about scale and governance with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Taleb sings the virtues of smaller relative to larger and decentralized as much as possible relative to centralized. Along the way, he provides a framework for Russia's war against Ukraine and explains why the United States has thrived despite its size and scope.