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22. Why Do We Buy Things We’ll Never Use?

No Stupid Questions

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More than 7,000 pedestrians are killed every year in the US. We've decided that car movement is really the supreme consideration when it comes to designing our streets. How to stop killing so many pedestrians? That's on the latest episode of the Freakonomics Radio Podcast.

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