Russ Roberts: preference

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…We will have much more government intervention. It will be with right-wing toppings and flavor. I’m not saying this is a good thing. There will be much more intervention in the healthcare system, but it will be a kind of triage and treating healthcare as scarce. Not giving it away to everyone for free and it will be brutal and we’ll feel bad about it and it will make the debates again more right-wing. I don’t mean more libertarian. I don’t mean more liberty-oriented. I mean right-wing in a very particular direction, but those are my takes. You give me yours. Well I don’t see that, but I want you to keep going. Let’s talk about the cultural changes. I’m going to go a different direction I think. I think people have a great thirst for face to face and I don’t think Zoom is, I love Zoom. I love Skype. Big fan of them, love the internet, loved talking to tens of thousands of people through my EconTalk once a week. At the same time, as you know, when you do a live event, people don’t say, “Oh, why would I go?” Like right now I don’t know how many people are watching this, but this is a crummy version of face to face, right? It’s a screen version, but there are people who are watching this live because they rather do that than listen later when it’s not live. If we were doing this in an auditorium, if it were safe to do it in an auditorium, we’d get a bigger crowd, not a bigger crowd excuse me, we’d get an enthusiastic crowd. The scaling problem would keep it small, but I think there’s still a tremendous thirst for that. I would much rather sit and have coffee with you than talk over Skype with you about this problem. I- Think how much more productive this is. Right? Much bigger viewership than our coffee klatch.…

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