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184. Alexander Green on Money & Why It Matters

The Michael Shermer Show

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You Give People Money and Not Expecting Anything in Return

i'm fascinated by how lives turn out in o jean's environment, luck, contingency so forth. To be born to a crack addicted mother in inner city baltimore itas like starting life eough as a foot race in a ten foot hole. Ri ye arthur brookes used to be wat the american enterprise instituts to talk about te feeling that most correlates with success in life is iisis a feeling of earned success. So when you give people money for doing nothing, you take away their incentive to do something, be something, be proud of what they've created or done.

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