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Lockdown: A Trolley Problem

Brain in a Vat

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How Much Does Locking Down Hurt the Economy?

On the other side of the track is the economy, right? So initially in the way we spelled out the thought experiment, the economy didn't have any people on it. It just had pianos and valuable things, but there's no people on that track. How much it hurts the economy is a very interesting question. In South Africa, we're talking about a totally paltry sum of money for our 60 million people population.

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