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Discontent in the Age of Plenty | Brink Lindsey | Ep. 75

Discontent in the Age of Plenty | Brink Lindsey | Ep. 7527 feb1 u 12 min

<p>Our editor Marian Tupy speaks with writer and policy scholar Brink Lindsey about his new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Problem-Uncertain-Transition-Flourishing/dp/0197803962" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing</em></a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>They discuss why material abundance produces dissatisfaction, the decline of marriage and community, bureaucratic stagnation, and the cultural and institutional innovations needed to produce mass satisfaction without scarcity.</p>