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Mark Rober

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Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Want to know what I think like the best case scenario is?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yes.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Have you heard the

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

The idea of like, if you had 10 dogs in a house, if you have like 10 dogs in a house and there's a pile of food, those dogs, and they're just on their own, they're going to fight over that scarce resource, which is the food.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

There's going to be one big dog who's going to be the number one, but it's constantly fighting.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

They're, you know, wounded.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Some are dying.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And that's not a great situation, but they are eating because there's a big pile of food.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Just some eat better than others.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Now, if a human goes into that house and be like, okay, hey guys, I bought you 10 cages.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

You're all going to be in the cages, but I'm going to give you food every day and all the water you need.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

You're going to be able to go to the vet.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

We're going to go on walks every day.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And they'll basically helps distribute those resources.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Those dogs objectively, even the top dog are happier because the resources are being allocated in a way because there's someone who can kind of map the whole situation.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Our best hope is for like a benevolent overlord.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

In this sense, someone who comes to the house and can help us balance the scarce resources or just create enough resources that they aren't even scarce.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And the reason we do that for dogs is we think they're cute and we think they have value and we just have to hope for them.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Like if you could, if putting sand in your microwave was an A-bomb.