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Wet Tyrant Contest feat. Patrick Wyman

TRASHFUTURE

CHAPTER

The Iron Law of Institutions

The way political leaders today talk about discerning the will of the economy and helping that along. This trust is not seeing the field of reads, he says. It's really easy to get locked into a kind of exclusionary way of understanding things where you just like, write off all the evidence that doesn't agree with your priors. You have no incentive to question your priors at all or to question the assumptions that make you the person who makes them important.

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