Matt Ridley

3 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 23, 2021 by Matt Ridley · said 7 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Mar 23, 2021
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Ridley: Zero-sum thinking stems from millions of years of ancestral biology
“We've spent millions of years thinking that your gain is my loss. It's only in the last a 100,000, in some ways, that's how well trade seems to be, On a massive scale with the division of labor and the collaborative system I described earlier, it's more like t…”
Matt Ridley Mar 23, 2021 ▶ 54:15 #107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
Mar 23, 2021 neutral
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Ridley: People are pessimistic about the world, not their individual lives
“We're not so pessimistic about our individual lives, interestingly, as we are about people and the planet generally.”
Matt Ridley Mar 23, 2021 ▶ 8:56 #107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
Mar 23, 2021 positive
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Ridley: Innovation fundamentally depends on individual and economic freedom
“You know, in the end, it all boils down to freedom, the freedom to Exchange ideas, the freedom to fail and start again, the freedom to change your mind, the freedom to invest where you think it's right to invest the freedom as a consumer to express your prefe…”
Matt Ridley Mar 23, 2021 ▶ 44:11 #107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
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