Tyler Cowen
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2,016 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 20 Jul
Tyler Cowen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a problem.
Now, people must enjoy it, the people who don't wreck their lives with it, or it wouldn't be that addictive.
But it is fairly addictive for many people.
And I don't see how we turn the clock back.
I wouldn't hit the button.
Banning it would not rein it in.
We know that already.
You hope norms change.
It's a bad thing to be one-shotted by.
That said, I'd like to see a cost-benefit analysis, all the people who enjoy it, and add them up and see how that compares to the cost.
No one wants to do that for obvious reasons.
Just say no.
Yeah, but it's – but right now – The honest don't do it.
I think the campaign against smoking worked because people like me hated it when someone next to them would light up or on a plane or in a movie theater.
I suffered under that for years.
Yeah.
You'd try to not sit next to the smoking section.
Yeah.
But again, if there's like a no gambling section on the airplane, it's ridiculous.
Yeah.
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