Russ Roberts: belief

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…Yes. It’s not simply that here’s new things to distract us. It’s that we were already very distractable. Now we’re more aware of how distractable we are. Maybe that’ll help us. We’re almost out of time. Do you want to say anything about more narrow fiscal monetary stuff that we didn’t talk about that you think is either going to happen that you’re horrified at or that you think is not going to happen that we should do? Things that aren’t on the table. I mean, I think the prize idea is huge, undervalued. I think we ought to be promoting that with great enthusiasm and we don’t need the government to do it. The beauty of having some really rich people who created these foundations is they can offer that prize right now and maybe they already have. I haven’t been paying close attention, but that’s really a really, really important thing. I’m running my own prizes through Emergent Ventures.…

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