Podcast
Freakonomics Radio
It was described as being about how industrialization and institutionalism, particularly within government, are a drag on humankind, arguing that many aspects of our lives are controlled by distant entities.
We have designed and built a world that is inhuman, he writes.
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It was described as being about how industrialization and institutionalism, particularly within government, are a drag on humankind, arguing that many aspects of our lives are controlled by distant entities.
We have designed and built a world that is inhuman, he writes.
In governments the world over, political leaders preside, frustrated and impotent, over vast bureaucratic systems that routinely disappoint and leave citizens enraged that they can't control what affects their lives.
Hilton complains that our food, our education, our health care are, quote, provided by anonymous, distant, industrialized machines.