Nietzsche's resentment is the negative way. An acquaintance in college claimed to care about helping the poor but actually hated the rich due to his own insecurities. He is now an investment banker, revealing his true desire for wealth. Gerard criticizes romanticism for its simplistic view. We lack time to delve deeper.
When the 20-year-old overachiever Johnathan Bi's first startup crashed and burned, he headed to a Zen retreat in the Catskills to "debug himself." He discovered René Girard and his mimetic theory--the idea that imitation is a key and often unconscious driver of human behavior. Listen as entrepreneur and philosopher Bi shares with EconTalk host Russ Roberts what he learned from Girard and Girard's insights into how we meet our primal need for money, fame, and power. The conversation includes the contrasts between economics and Girard's perspective.