The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
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Arthur Brooks: The bottom 80% of earners experienced zero economic growth
“This blended, by the way, with the Great Recession in 2008, 2009, such that basically 80% of the income distribution, the bottom 80% has experienced zero economic growth.”
Arthur Brooks: Left-wing and right-wing populism are both nonsense
“It's rich people who've got your stuff, and both of those approaches are nonsense. Neither one of those approaches is legitimate”
Arthur Brooks: Believing in inevitable tech advancement means discarding morality
“The people who believe in the inevitability of technological advance in all areas at all times, these are people who have basically decided that morality is not important.”
Arthur Brooks: Every additional child lowers immediate parental happiness
“Nobody has kids because kids bring immediate happiness. On the contrary, you find all the evidence suggests that every additional kid you add to your house lowers your happiness.”
Arthur Brooks: Founders and policymakers often ignore work's human side
“Too often, those of us who work in the free enterprise system, whether we're in policy or whether people are doing a startup or whatever it happens to be, intimately Involved in the free enterprise system, either studying the system or using the system, they d…”
Brooks: Adam Smith was a moral theologian, not an economist
“Adam Smith was not an economist. Adam Smith was a moral theologian.”
Arthur Brooks: Software engineers should view themselves as moral theologians
“Software engineers that are listening to this, Should be moral theologians. What is the meaning behind your work?”
Arthur Brooks: There are 300,000 open skilled welding jobs in the US
“The American Welding Association, I just learned this, There are 300,000 skilled welding jobs that are open today.”
Arthur Brooks: Free enterprise pulled two billion people out of poverty
“The free enterprise system has done in pulling two billion people out of poverty since 1970.”
Arthur Brooks: Visionary entrepreneurs unlock latent demand, not existing demand
“The most conventional entrepreneurs look for demand that exists but is currently unmet. Visionary entrepreneurship is the kind where the demand doesn't even exist yet. The reason that Jobs was such an inflecting visionary character was because he believed in l…”
Arthur Brooks: Immigrants are the ultimate entrepreneurs risking their lives
“Conventional thinking about entrepreneurship thinks about it in terms of starting a company, starting a firm. But real entrepreneurship is a way of life. And the most entrepreneurial people are people who put their capital at risk. And who puts their capital a…”