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#651 - Dr Mike Israetel - Can Money Actually Buy You Happiness?
Modern Wisdom
The Pervasive Cynicism of Skepticism
There is a pervasive pessimism masquerading as skepticism on non-nativity. Why? A couple of smart folks, maybe more than a couple have speculated. It's easier to be skeptical and cynical because then if you're proven wrong, you're like, shit's better. Another hypothesis is that our brains did not evolve for the today times. They evolved in the times of our evolution where most of that evolution was in an objective reality that was pessimistic as fuck.
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