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Interview: Brad DeLong, author of Slouching Towards Utopia

Ordinary Astronauts

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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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