Arthur Brooks

The whole point is that if it went toward human capital development, if it went toward what my parents would have put it into...

right?

It would have been great.

It would have been a fabulous thing.

And the whole thing is just based on this idea that everybody has the same values, that everybody has the same priorities, which they don't.

And it wasn't a question of money.

Furthermore, when you actually give people for nothing, you strip away their sense of earned success.

And earned success is part of this idea of satisfaction.

It gets into this idea of progress.

It gets into the wiring of homo sapiens.

That's what it comes down to.

It denies the primacy of

and respect due to human evolutionary biology, which I know is something you love, right?

Me too, right?

Because it explains so much of the odd behavior that people have.

And so every time that we try to reorder the way that human beings are wired evolutionarily with some utopian idea that we've got this technology, we've got this economic policy, we've got, I've got this new idea for how the genders are gonna behave toward each other.

Yeah, no, no.

From now on, we're no longer going to be like people were 50,000 years ago.

It's going to fail.

It's going to fail.