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(Classic Episode) Zvi Mowshowitz - How the Worst People in Society Bungled a Pandemic

From the New World

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The Purpose of Conversation

I had this idea that like if you just went down to some random person, they'd be primarily trying to social climb as a central thing about their lives. I think it's just actually wrong because I think it’s sort of a luxury good,. And also that conversation is just a very small portion of what we do all day. But more than that, yes, on the margins, we're choosing behaviors and conversations to maximize a number of different things at once.

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