Ando: Religion is a very special form of cultural capital. Its people's most fundamental beliefs about the world. Secular societies tend to fall into much lower birth rates. They don't reproduce them elves. And religion, even adjusting for income, has predictive power over birth rate. It's one reason why america still has a stable or typically growing population,. along with emigration. American religion has stayed remarkably strong for our level of income.
A few months ago, Tyler asked Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, to be on the show. Patrick agreed, but only under the condition that the be the one to do the interviewing. Thus, what follows is the conversation Patrick wanted to have with Tyler, not the one you wanted to have.
Happily Patrick stayed true to the spirit of Conversations with Tyler, and their dialogue covers a wide range of topics including the the benefits of diverse monocultures, the state of macroeconomics, Donald Trump, the amazing economics faculty at GMU, Peter Thiel, Brian Eno, Thomas Schelling, why Twitter is underrated, and — most pressing of all — why Marginal Revolution is so strange looking.
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Recorded January 25th, 2017 Other ways to connect
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