
Episode 93: Barry Lam discusses obligations after death
Elucidations
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Obligations to Yourself
A lot of the things that you owe to yourself we don't think too much about, but those are obligations to yourself. Trillions of dollars of the US economy are in this kind of economic infrastructure solely for the purposes of executing the wishes of dead people. You can just take a bunch of little bits of money with a large amount of money and aggregate it to execute the wishes of 1,000 or 2,000 dead people. And then you get other institutions such as universities, museums, so on.
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