We covered so much in this informative episode, we're just going to explain it via bullet points:
- Being a D1 wrestler, BJJ'er, and an academic during late stage capitalism
- Meritocracy AKA doing everything right and still being fucked
- Problems of health care and how one medical emergency can upend your whole life
- Dangers of post-concussion syndrome (and how little we still know about the brain)
- Magic the Gathering & professional poker
- Game theory & trickle-down economics
- The MMA Info Wars culture
- How living the BJJ lifestyle is very hard to do unless you're rich
- Batman, Iron Man, TED talks, and the creation of the anarcho-capitalist white billionaire superhero
- Hard math vs. everything else
- Market solutions when there are no rational actors (and old irrational economists resisting behavioral economics)
- Private solutions to public problems
- When you're hurting, a sociopath will say fuck everyone else; if you're empathetic, you'll wonder how others are also suffering
- Prosperity gospel (loving the rich and hating the poor)
- How CEOs and YouTubers replaced public intellectuals and made us dumber
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