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295. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley — Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet

The Michael Shermer Show

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You Don't Want to Pay Taxes?

"I've long wondered if there's almost an inevitability to the growth of government bureaucracy, just because it's designed to do what it does," he says. "As as more people get into more conflicts than you have to have more rules to resolve the conflicts." In bike racing, when i started race across america with three other guys, we just had a one page rule sheet. You know, within five years it was like a 30 page rule book,. And then you kind of see the whole thing start a snowball like that.

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