Brittany Luce

The pioneering psychologist, Abraham Maslow.

Yes, that Maslow is in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

You know, the pyramid that has self-actualization at the top.

That model has been critiqued actually for being unscientific, but it's something that people still reference to this day.

Anyway, Maslow reportedly said in the 1960s that the most valuable 100 people to bring into a deteriorating society would be not 100 chemists or politicians or professors or engineers, but rather 100 entrepreneurs.

But looking at our society today, a lot of entrepreneurs have wider cultural or even political sway.

Many people would argue that that hasn't made society better.

A lot of people might just, you know, they might say that these entrepreneurs just made a lot of money.

So I wonder, why do we look to entrepreneurs for salvation?

Yes.

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

Eric, you give me so much to think about.

I just had to sigh for a second.

You give me so much to think about.

Thank you so much.

That was Eric Baker.

He's a lecturer at Harvard University and the author of the book, Make Your Own Job, How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America.

This episode of It's Been a Minute was produced by Liam McBain.

This episode was edited by Nina Potok.

Engineering support came from David Greenberg.