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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So to claim we can't do it now, it's simply a failure of will.
There are laws that need to be changed, procedures that need to be changed, but I think the first step is just to wake people up and increase awareness.
Yeah, I don't know.
What wha what do you think?
I think the YMB movement could go much further if it could promise it would boost housing and make neighborhoods prettier.
Right now it's like, Well, we're gonna boost housing.
Cost will fall, that's wonderful.
But maybe your neighborhood will get uglier.
Sure.
Say you do it in Buffalo.
You replace the old with the new.
The new's probably uglier.
Uh I don't like that.
I think you would have a lot more successes when it can promise beauty.
Yeah.
Not that much.
I mean I would say the problem is ugliness.
If you look at older structures around the world, especially in Europe, but often in the US, they can be very ornate and have all kinds of flourishes and small details that are lovely.
Those are not solving problems.
They're put there because people think it will make the thing look better.
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