I’m not sure why Matt thinks that “we must give money to poor people” logically follows from “you didn’t create the inputs that make you productive”. Geniuses of the past were the ones who created the “collective” knowledge, not the poor people Matt is thinking of. They were the ones who were under-compensated. If anything, this suggests we should retroactively reward both living geniuses and the descendants of ones who passed.
Is there a better way to digest this content other than via Substack? The embedded YouTube video is not listed on the Econoboi YouTube channel as a public video and I do not see it anywhere in podcast format?
I’m not sure why Matt thinks that “we must give money to poor people” logically follows from “you didn’t create the inputs that make you productive”. Geniuses of the past were the ones who created the “collective” knowledge, not the poor people Matt is thinking of. They were the ones who were under-compensated. If anything, this suggests we should retroactively reward both living geniuses and the descendants of ones who passed.
Is there a better way to digest this content other than via Substack? The embedded YouTube video is not listed on the Econoboi YouTube channel as a public video and I do not see it anywhere in podcast format?