The Complacent Class
1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 21, 2018 by Tyler Cowen · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Aug 21, 2018 negative
Cowen: Rational individual choices for safety make society collectively worse off
“So a lot of these decisions to settle in and be safe and comfortable, they're individually rational. Like, it's good to be safe, right? Stress is, is, is a bad thing. But when our society collectively makes this decision, there are ways in which we're all wors…”