140. Is Envy Healthy?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 2 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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What does social media do to our self-esteem? How is envy affecting our politics? And should you go to your high school reunion? Take the Seven Deadly Sins survey: freakonomics.com/nsq-sins/

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0:00.0	Oh, I'm better than that person.
0:03.6	Oh, worse than that one.
0:05.7	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:07.1	I'm Stephen Dubner.
0:08.1	And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.
0:11.5	Today on the show, is our society built on envy?
0:15.8	He actually does something useful.
0:17.6	And I just sit here and talk to people.
0:20.7	Angela, we have a question from a listener named
0:29.1	Josh Witten in Vancouver, British Columbia.
0:32.1	What a place that is.
0:33.8	Got engaged there.
0:34.9	Did you?
0:35.7	Yeah.
0:36.4	Why?
0:37.4	What do you mean why?
0:38.4	Because Jason asked me to marry him there.
0:40.2	I don't know.
0:41.8	I kind of figured that part.
0:43.0	Why were you there?
0:44.0	Well, we were on vacation.
0:46.1	Do you think the vacation proposal is the right move?
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