Reason and empirical evidence should be applied to public policy and could make the world a better place if only we allowed it to. But what generally gets in the way is something called repugnance
It's another thing to have a frictionless gambling app on your phone where you can lose multiple mortgage payments on Malaysian women's doubles badminton, right?
Smith emerges as a penetrating psychologist who understood that our deepest hunger isn't for wealth but for respect--and that this hunger, left unexamined, leads individuals and societies alike into serious trouble.
It's turning all of American life into a Las Vegas table game. There's always this kind of glittering mirage of profit that you're chasing, when, in reality, it's designed to sort of demoralize and crush every regular person who plays.
