Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Does that suggest that, for instance, should we actually be treating kids more seriously? For instance, thinking about extending voter rights at a younger age and things like that? Or is that just a different question to you? I’m not sure extending voter rights to kids would matter much. There’s Coasian bargaining within the family. I would say I’m not opposed, but I’m not for it. Another intuition I have is, children feel less in control than you, as a parent, realize. In ways that don’t even matter, you want to give them chances to feel in control, like in a conversation or an interaction. Just hang back a bit and let them own things and own the structure of your interaction with them, more than is typically the case. I don’t have any real evidence that that has positive benefit, but I know it’s how I act. It feels to me like, at the very least, it’s good for me. I don’t see that it’s likely to be harming them, so there you go. All right, moving on. Dallas Floer, fellow producer of Conversations with Tyler, asks, Limp Bizkit’s new album — overrated or underrated?…

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