Life According to Longtermism (w/ Émile P. Torres)
GRIFTONOMICS
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Long Termism Is Essentially a Quasi Religion
How does it go from some academic musings into being this thing that the richest people in the world are believing? So i think there are many ways to answer that. Long termism is essentially a kind of a quasi religion. It offers, again, this gestures back to what we were talking about earlier, it offers, you know, meaning in life. Thereis this promise of aof potentiall, eternal life. Id e they could feasibly, probably solve with that collective wealth? Yes. I mean, i think it would take something like five billion to stop at minate hunger.
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