
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals (Tyler Cowen)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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The Relationship Between Wealth and Human Frustration
For a very poor society, more material wealth leads to more human flourishing. But that says nothing about where the more material wealth will always lead to more flourishing. Maybe it will lead to less. And past a certain amount of societal wealth, we no longer lift our gaze to the stars. If we can create a virtuous, flourishing society, that lasts some hundreds of years and then falls or retrenches, but which allows those that follow to build upon it, we have done our duty.
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