Episode 15: Decadant feedback and society

Please contact us or support us on Patreon!This episode Chris has a book review on "The decadent society", hard to explain, but very impactful. We have further reflections on meritocracy, UBI, and womens happiness. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------The main book by Ross Douthat - The decadent society: How we became victims of our own successWhatever Brian's weird reference was in the openingThe paradox of declining womens happiness -  By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The WEIRD people - Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and DemocraticThe FIexplorer - he's pretty rich and probably pretty swol'The broken windows fallacy - Chris stopped paying attention half way through and is now out smashing windows in order to boost GDP and helpFreddie De Boer picks fights with blue checks on twitter. It's quite fun.The hard thing about hard things by Ben Horowitz - should we get pay rises every couple of weeks?

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