#33 – Johan Norberg: Capitalism, Degrowth, and Elon Musk
Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a writer who focuses on globalization, human progress and intellectual history. He is the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, and The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it! Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. You can also send me bitcoin to this address. Timestamps0:50 - How Johan changed his mind about human progress 3:50 - Pro-human flourishing cannot be anti-environment 5:33 - Alternative words to describe capitalism 8:30 - Why is there so much economic illiteracy? 12:36 - Despise poverty, not wealth or inequality 16:41 - We are taxing what we want more of 18:46 - Degrowth and the fall of western education 25:21 - The concept of “needs” is often abused 29:27 - How to have infinite growth on a finite planet 33:08 - Elon Musk 34:43 - Javier Milei and Argentina 39:34 - Privatizing law and justice systems 43:52 - Child labor 49:52 - Advice for young people Follow Johan on X: http://x.com/johanknorberg |
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Modern-Day Religious Fanaticism
Friday, June 7, 2024
Ft. Naval and Farb. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024
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Economic Creationism Fails to Explain Reality
Monday, June 3, 2024
You cannot coerce your way to a better world. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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