Lex Fridman: belief

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…There are some things he said he was wrong about. We’ll delve more into monetarism and monetary policy, but he was able to talk about the ways his ideas hadn’t mapped onto the world the way he thought they would. He does a really interesting interview at the end of his life where he’s beginning to voice some doubts about globalization, which was he was sort of a prophet of globalization, a cheerleader of globalization. He really thought it would lead to a better world in all respects. Towards the end of his life, it’s about two years before he dies, there’s a note of doubt about how globalization unfolded, and what it would mean particularly for the American worker. So, you can see him still thinking, and that to me, I had assumed he became crankier and crankier and more and more set in his ways. Of course, there’s a phase where he does become that way, especially as he’s in the public eye, and there’s not room for nuance. But to find in the last years of his life him being so reflective, that was absolutely not something Rand could do. I think there’s a thread throughout this conversation where we should actually also say that you’re a historian of ideas. How’s that? I am a historian of ideas, yes.…

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