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My guest today is Tyler Cowen, the author of “The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream.” Tyler first noticed a problem in America when he began traveling after the financial crisis and saw how “comfortable” life had become for many Americans. People were not taking risks anymore and when risk is taken away, what is left?
The topic is his book The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Complacency
- Elon Musk
- Innovators
- The millennial generation
- Democracy as a medium
- American culture on the decline
- Illegal and legal drug use
- Online matching from dating to shopping goods
- Lifting people out of poverty
- Jack Ma
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