United Kingdom, every mention
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every year 2018 anyone Shane Parrish 47Rory Sutherland 24Balaji Srinivasan 9Jonathan Haidt 6Bruce Flatt 6Margaret Heffernan 5William MacAskill 4Patrick Collison 4Kunal Shah 4Hannah Fry 4
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#36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good
- ▶ 39:58 William MacAskill Um, I mean, I think there are some things that governments do that are, you know, more kind of genuinely philanthropic, so especially from countries like Sweden and the UK, the money that they send on overseas development aid.
- ▶ 40:42 Shane Parrish I mean, if you were put in charge of the UK government, how would the charitable giving or how would you tackle things differently than what's happening now with the same amount of money?
- ▶ 45:42 William MacAskill They're still in the richest 10 to 15% of the world's population, and that's not at all to, um, you know, belittle the problems that people in the poverty line in North America are going through, or the UK. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:26 William MacAskill Um, and maybe I'm just saying this in the UK where people are notoriously emotionally reserved.
#33 Dan Ariely: The Truth About Lies
- ▶ 21:13 Dan Ariely We tried the UK.
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 10:06 Patrick Collison Um, and of course there's the reverse version where so many Irish people themselves, uh, have sort of benefited enormously from being able to go and sort of pursue lives in the UK and Australia and the US and Canada, uh, and so on.
- ▶ 1:14:54 Patrick Collison And, you know, was it the abundance of, uh, or was it the abundance of coal in the UK? 3 times in the scene
#30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
- ▶ 2:36 Margaret Heffernan It wasn't a sort of, ah, what I think of as a sort of jolly hum, and it certainly didn't sound like companies I'd run in the UK, and I 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:47 Margaret Heffernan And bear in mind, certainly in the US, that most people, the US and to be honest, the UK, most people are coming out of competitive education systems.
- ▶ 42:20 Margaret Heffernan And I heard exactly the same thing from the chief executive of a big supermarket chain here in the UK that had some, um, significant, uh, accounting issues leading to, you know, restatements of earnings and so on, and also some issues…