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Episode 318: Nostalgia and Pop-Culture

Words & Numbers

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Is There a Softening Agent?

The idea was that the United States would be a commercial republic. That commerce was that factor that softened the way people dealt with each other. When we do business with people we never meet, you don't get that softening agent anymore. And what happens? We get angry about it and you get something called consumer rage.

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