ABUNDANCE! We Read the Book. Why Doesn't America Build Anymore? Failed Housing & Infrastructure Policies? Afraid of Science & Health Risk? Regulations! Will Anyone Turn Abundance Into A Movement?
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The Best Paragraph I've Read:
Political movements succeed when they build a vision of the future that is imbued with the virtues of the past. Franklin D. Roosevelt pitched his expansive view of government as a sentinel for American freedoms: of speech, of worship, fromwant, from fear. Decades later, Ronald Reagan recast government as freedom’s nemesis rather than its protector. Abundance, too, is about redefining freedom for our own time. It is about the freedom to build in an age of blocking; the freedom to move and live where you want in an age of a stuck working class; the freedom from curable diseases that come from scientific breakthroughs.
This paragraph comes from an essay in the Atlantic titled: The Political Fight of the Century. The author is Derek Thompson. You can read the full essay here:
Zac & Don are joined by their good friend Kevin Kopec. The three discuss some of the big ideas from the new book Abundance. They discuss past government failure on housing policy, large infrastructure projects, small thinking when it comes to science and more. They also wonder if the ideas of Abundance will actually be promoted by future politicians.
You can find more information about Abundance here:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Abundance/Derek-Thompson/9781668023488
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