Glen Weyl (@glenweyl) and Riva Melissa-Tez (@rivatez) join Erik for this episode. They discuss Glen’s book, Radical Markets, and a number of topics related to it, including:

- The similarities between Rio de Janeiro and San Francisco when it comes to wealth distribution
- Why Glen has received blame and praise on different issues from both sides of the political spectrum
- Why the book appeals primarily not to the right or the left, but to the open-minded
- The reason that Glen calls himself a social technologist
- How Glen came to meet Vitalik Buterin and how they ended up writing a paper together, which Glen calls “the single thing I’m most proud of intellectually”
- Skeptical perspectives on blockchain and cryptocurrency, and why Glen calls them “a society of absolute private property governed by plutocracy”
- “The problem of funding public goods without having to pre-suppose that it’s all going to be done by some particular democratic government somewhere.”
- Why Glen thinks the news media is the best opportunity for decentralized funding
- The idea that “economics is a disguise for the interests of a narrow part of society.”
- Glen’s relationship with Jaron Lanier and his admiration of Jaron as a thinker
- Glen and Riva’s requests for startups
- Evolving the idea of human capital

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