Ep. 198 Should We Prevent the Rich from Living Longer?
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In an "op-ed from the future," Krugman speculates about a world in which "the rich" have access to life-extending technology. Should they be allowed to have it if not everyone can afford it? This episode gets to the heart of the left-liberal worldview.
Show notes for Ep. 198
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 198. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:10.0 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.7 | arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:15.9 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:19.9 | It's time for Contra Kruikman. |
| 0:24.0 | Hey, Contra Krueman listeners. If you like Austrian economics and you want to get more |
| 0:28.9 | in-depth analysis and discussion, I'd point you to my podcast, the Bob Murphy Show. |
| 0:34.7 | It's not a substitute for contra Kruikman. It's in addition to. You get more, |
| 0:39.3 | not an alternative. Go to Bob Murphy Show.com. Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode |
| 0:45.9 | of Contra Krugman. This is a weird one. Let's just be perfectly blunt here. This is a weird one. |
| 0:51.8 | Bob, you picked a weird one this week, July 15th, 2019. |
| 0:56.1 | Billionaires shouldn't live forever. Evergarks should grow old like the rest of us. |
| 1:02.1 | Going to go ahead and summarize this. |
| 1:05.0 | Let me be clear, though, just to avoid confusion, I don't think this is available through Krugman's regular archives. |
| 1:12.8 | Like if people just check his op-ed section, New York Times, this doesn't show up as far as I'm |
| 1:17.7 | aware. Somebody on Twitter tip me off on this one time. |
| 1:21.6 | Okay. All right. Well, of course, we'll link to it at contra kruigman.com slash 198. |
| 1:26.2 | If people would like to read it for some reason. |
| 1:29.1 | Let me start by reading the editor's note. This is part of a series op-eds from the future, |
| 1:34.6 | in which science fiction authors, futurists, philosophers, and scientists write op-eds |
| 1:39.4 | that they imagine we might read 10, 20, or even 100 years from now. The challenges they predict are imaginary for now, but their arguments illuminate the urgent questions of today and prepare us for tomorrow. |
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