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#257 — The State of the World

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is Your Economy Growing?

A public good is something that we all benefit from, but no one of us pays for. So in order to have a tax based your economy needs to be growing. The pie has to be expanding so that we can tax and use that money to fund these public goods - education, health care, infra, structure, national security. And i'm were seing a bet expand when you have things like climate change,. A confluence of factors was creating a greater drag on economic growth. Things like climate change issues areound. Demographic shifts. Indias adding a million people a month to the populateto her population. Already deep concerns around a productivity declined.

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