Rob Tracinski talks to Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute and HumanProgress.org, and coauthor of the new book Superabundance.
We discuss the reality of progress, why people refuse to accept it, the curious correlation of improvements to human life accompanied by increasingly apocalyptic films, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as an explanation for our pessimism, and the effect that recognition of progress would have on our public debate.
Watch the video here.
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