I see a creeping deterioration of the belief in individual liberty as an important idea. Restrictive urban construction and land use regulations are terrible. I don't know if loosening building here would tax your productivity increase it, but i'd at least consider the notion this is the one place in the world where we shouldn't loosen building restrictions. If you're all producing these amazing global public goods, and the federal government is going to raise taxes on you anyway, i promise this. Your taxes are going up, state, city, local, whatever. And then we put this new tax on you. And you all are the atlases out there. That's, that's the subjective experience of
A few months ago, Tyler asked Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, to be on the show. Patrick agreed, but only under the condition that the be the one to do the interviewing. Thus, what follows is the conversation Patrick wanted to have with Tyler, not the one you wanted to have.
Happily Patrick stayed true to the spirit of Conversations with Tyler, and their dialogue covers a wide range of topics including the the benefits of diverse monocultures, the state of macroeconomics, Donald Trump, the amazing economics faculty at GMU, Peter Thiel, Brian Eno, Thomas Schelling, why Twitter is underrated, and — most pressing of all — why Marginal Revolution is so strange looking.
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Recorded January 25th, 2017 Other ways to connect
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