Episodios

  • Coming Soon: The Liberty Exchange
    Oct 2 2023
    Coming soon, a brand new podcast from Libertarianism.org...

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    3 m
  • The Future of Stuff
    Feb 17 2022

    Your home is full of technological miracles, devices that your ancestors would have regarded as near magic because of the life of relative ease they provide us with. However, something is changing. In the past, we got richer by owning more stuff; but in the future, we will have more by owning less.


    In this final episode of Building Tomorrow, Paul talks with Cory Doctorow, Michael Munger, Ruth Cowan, and Chelsea Follett about the past, present, and future of material possession.


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    49 m
  • One Landfill's Trash is the Future's Treasure
    Dec 9 2021

    If you're the kind of person who carefully sorts out your recyclables from your trash, cleans it, and puts it out in the blue bin for pickup, you probably don't realize that as much as 90% of that material either just ends up in a landfill or, worse, is dumped into the ocean. Indeed, much of the plastic litter in the Pacific Ocean is the result of our well-intentioned but misplaced efforts at recycling since the 1990s.


    In this episode, we talk to an environmental economist, landfill scientist, and blockchain engineer about the future of our waste. We can efficiently sort and store our plastics in landfills for future mining operations, incentivizing good behavior via cryptocurrency rewards. We can incinerate our waste in hyper-efficient facilities that power cities and reduce our carbon footprint. Building Tomorrow means building more and better landfills.



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    44 m
  • The Underpopulation Crisis
    Nov 11 2021

    People are afraid. Afraid that they are consuming too much, emitting too much, having too many kids, and running the planet into the ground. Eight billion people seems like too many. But a growing number of experts are sounding the alarm that a far worse problem is on the horizon, an underpopulation crisis. People are having fewer kids and countries are aging. For example, by the end of the century Japan will halve its population. Those who remain will be older and poorer. We need more people, not fewer, if we want to find innovative solutions to climate change and resource crunches.


    For music attributions see: https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/building-tomorrow/underpopulation-crisis



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    50 m
  • Data is the New Guano
    Oct 14 2021

    What happens when a raw material that is valueless suddenly becomes valuable? If it's bird guano in the 19th century, you mine it and save the agricultural economy. If its data in the late 20th century, you collect it and create a new digital economy.


    Music attributions can be found here: https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/building-tomorrow/guano.


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    46 m
  • Building Tomorrow is Back!
    Sep 30 2021
    The Building Tomorrow podcast is back in a new format. This season we will be focusing on wanting more. The desire for more embraces a prosperity mindset, the belief that growth and wealth are not a zero-sum game. We will release one in depth episode per month for 6 months. We would love for you to listen along as we long for more immigrants, more data, more houses, more mammoths, and more. Happy listening!

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    4 m
  • Building Tomorrow: Under Construction
    Nov 12 2020
    We have a special announcement about the future of Building Tomorrow. Stay tuned.

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    2 m
  • Can We Fix U.S. Politics? (with Lee Drutman & Dan Bowen)
    Oct 29 2020

    If voting leaves you feeling tired and vaguely dissatisfied, you're not alone. Over 60% of voters aren't happy with the two party duopoly that dominates US politics; others hate the flood of negative campaign ads or feel that politics is too big or too distant to be able to effect via the voting process.


    But there is hope! This week, Paul talks to two political scientists, Lee Drutman and Daniel Bowen to talk about how ranked choice voting, multi-member legislative districts, and packing the House of Representatives could save our democracy from its dire situation.


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    49 m