Cind avr: What's the next great political party that doesn't exist yet in the united states? i think america will have its current two party system for a very long time to come. I could imagine that working pretty well in countries like australia and denmark, smaller markets. But i am an american exceptionalist. We have this unique vision, a kind of extreme puritanism,. adopting personal projects that are work based and obcessively seeing them through in a determined way. That's quite difficult to pull off in the contemporary world.
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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