
Michael Frazer, “The Power of Sympathy: Politics and Moral Sentimentalism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Ideas Roadshow Podcast
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The Pursuit of Wealth Is a Good Way to Get People to Pay Attention to You
The pursuit of wealth is grounded in a kind of easily understandable mistake that is common to toddlers and donal trump. People most crave from their fellow human beings is sympathetic concern and approval um. And one way to not get that is to bea observed and disapproved of. But another way not to get that isto be ignored entirely, to not be paid attention to.
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