Slouching towards economic utopia (with Brad DeLong)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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Is Your World Utopian or Not?
You earn good livings doing extraordinarily interesting consequential work. Would you say that if everyone on planet Earth lived the life that you and Goldie live, would that be a utopia? There still would be killer robots flying over Ukraine looking to kill people. We have an awful lot of people who would be very angry because other people who are moocers and slackers have things that they shouldn't. After Mr feed in the 2012 election you got this rant about how Obama won because he gave all these undeserving people free stuff. And they voted for him. They aren't going to learn the life lessons they need to learn to be productive and happy as they've learned to vote for Obama
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