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Plato said those who tell the stories rule society and he was right.

Tyler Cowen has argued that one of “the most valuable things you can do with your time and with your life” is to believe in people.⁠

Furthermore, it is harder for wealthy people to claim the mantle of victimhood, which, among the affluent, is often a key ingredient to be seen as a righteous person.

The primary job of business is to solve human problems, and the primary job of the state, then, is to create the conditions for large-scale cooperation to allow that process to happen. That involves things like promoting inclusion. You can’t have large-scale cooperation if you’re systematically excluding large groups of people. You have to have

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of larger society. So that’s a very old battle in human history between the self-serving stories of an elite and the stories that can actually help serve a broader society. Part of what we’ve seen in our economics is that elites previously used to appeal to gods, to how our ancestors did it, to the natural order, etc., to make credible their

Seeking wealth is not always in fashion. In a society correctly concerned about the acceleration of income inequality, wealth looks like the unfair allocation of a rigged system.

there is one group of people that is truly useful to everyone else—those people eager to earn more money.