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1 Nov 2017 Conversations with Tyler Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy*

“I think there is something we can do about, ’cause there’s plenty of things we can do to make them better and we are physically able to do them.”

— Brink Lindsey

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Brink Lindsey
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commitment
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1 Nov 2017
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Conversations with Tyler

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…But is there hope? Is the general question, right? Yeah, I am generally dubious of big monocausal, historical explanations that fixes in and we’re just riding along and there’s nothing we can do about it. Just temperamentally and philosophically, I’m not going to be… I’m not gonna guide my life by fatalistic historical narratives. I think there is something we can do about, ’cause there’s plenty of things we can do to make them better and we are physically able to do them. There are things we can do about them whether we will succeed or not is a different question entirely. Are high levels of executive compensation also a part of the problem? And yes, I did ask Steve this too.…

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