Daniel Schmachtenberger joins Erik on this episode. He is a civilization designer interested in social architecture.

They discuss:

- The unsustainability of economic growth.

- Why what’s best for the long-term is often also best for others.

- Asymmetries in markets and why markets are not actually self-correcting.

- What a healthy version of social media might look like.

- What Daniel means when he says “humans are not evolutionarily precedented creatures” and what the implications of that are.

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