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Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Why Is There a Bureaucracy?

A lot of managers, what they would love is just manage a team of self starters who don't need their involvement very much. But that's not what you get when you're an editor and your writers want to talk on the phone five times a day. And then if you tell them they're not good, like then they want something more reliable. The most important thing they use here is shame. So again we talked about the human beings are unique as the species because we can blush. I think that's a really telling fact,. but there are also sort of these wonderful disruptions from anthropologist James Seussmann in his book affluence with without abundance.

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