Minor nitpick. I don’t want to drive fossil fuel companies out of business. I want to tax their carbon-producing activities to the point they clear up the damage they have done and are carbon neutral in future.
Giving a short nuanced answer to this effect would have been really difficult, but, alongside praising Will for what was a superb interview, it feels worth pointing out possible improvements. The world is lucky that Will did not accidentally die falling through the roof of some Scottish abandoned building[1].
While we’re nitpicking, I think “above a certain threshold, money doesn’t make a difference to your life” is probably false. My best sense of the literature is that there are sharply diminishing returns but I don’t think additional money gets you zero or negative utility[1].
But overall I thought the interview was quite good. I got the impression people really liked him. Intuitively it must be really hard to be honest for 10+ minutes without saying something that goes against leftist dogma, and of course doing it live adds a lot of pressure.
Minor nitpick. I don’t want to drive fossil fuel companies out of business. I want to tax their carbon-producing activities to the point they clear up the damage they have done and are carbon neutral in future.
Giving a short nuanced answer to this effect would have been really difficult, but, alongside praising Will for what was a superb interview, it feels worth pointing out possible improvements. The world is lucky that Will did not accidentally die falling through the roof of some Scottish abandoned building[1].
I’m paraphrasing, but this is a real thing that really nearly happened and if it had, I wonder where we’d all be now.
While we’re nitpicking, I think “above a certain threshold, money doesn’t make a difference to your life” is probably false. My best sense of the literature is that there are sharply diminishing returns but I don’t think additional money gets you zero or negative utility[1].
But overall I thought the interview was quite good. I got the impression people really liked him. Intuitively it must be really hard to be honest for 10+ minutes without saying something that goes against leftist dogma, and of course doing it live adds a lot of pressure.
Now of course we don’t have accurate data/studies on billionaires, so basically we’re back at intuition/priors.