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Interview: Brad DeLong, author of Slouching Towards Utopia

Ordinary Astronauts

CHAPTER

The World Is Not Run by Greed

The book is called slouching towards utopia. Why it seems like we're moving towards it or we're not moving towards it necessarily in a straight line. There's this Charlie Munker quote, which is that the world is not run by greed. It's envy, AKA, it's relative. Like I could always do as more and I can imagine having more than I currently have.

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