Episode 77: How to Be a Good Person with No Sacrifice

industrial era capitalism’s cornerstones undercount costs (ignoring many flavors of loss and damage) and overcount benefits (overstating how much products and services make people durably, tangibly, and meaningfully better off).

all these Wall Street companies Sam had never heard of came to the job fair that year inside the MIT gym. And he became just a little curious about them. Even a few months earlier his curiosity would have surprised him. He’d never had the slightest interest in money. He neither knew nor cared about finance. Apart from a firmly held idea that he sho