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The Psychology of Property | The Stephan Kinsella Series | Episode 4 (WiM235)

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Only Thing We Can Change in the World to Affect Human Nature

The only thing we can actually change in the world to affect human nature are the incentive structures, says Stefan Molyneux. As people want to improve their income and move into more highly evaluated positions in the hierarchy of caretakers, they increasingly have to use their political talents. It becomes irrelevant or is at least of reduced importance to be a more efficient producer or contractor in order to rise in the hierarchyof income recipients. The average person suffers from that because we're living in a less wealthy world right now than we otherwise could if we had more a higher degree of capitalism.

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