#189 — Wealth & Happiness

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Scott Galloway about the connection between wealth and happiness. They discuss the problem of wealth inequality, the transfer of wealth from the young to the old, class warfare in Democratic politics, deficit spending, means testing Social Security, Bloomberg’s campaign and “stop and frisk,” breaking up big tech, privacy absolutism, meditation, mortality, atheism, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:18.9	This is Sam Harris.
0:20.5	Okay, no housekeeping today.
0:24.2	Today I'm speaking with Scott Galaway.
0:27.2	That is the New York Times best-selling author of the four, the Hidden DNA of Amazon,
0:32.0	Apple, Facebook, and Google.
0:34.3	And a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.
0:38.6	He is a serial entrepreneur and has founded nine companies, including L2, Red Envelope,
0:45.7	and Profit.
0:47.4	In 2012, he was named one of the world's 50 best business school professors by poets
0:52.5	and quants.
0:54.0	And his weekly YouTube series, Winners and Losers has generated tens of millions of views.
0:59.5	He is the co-host of the Pivot Podcast with Kara Swisher.
1:04.1	And that's why I normally hear him.
1:05.1	I'm a big fan of that podcast.
1:07.9	And his latest book is The Algebra of Happiness.
1:11.0	Notes on the pursuit of success, love, and meaning.
1:14.4	And it's a really fun and wise little book.
1:17.8	I highly recommend it.
1:19.8	Also Scott's about to launch a new podcast titled The Prof G Show.
1:24.8	That's a letter G with Scott Galaway.
1:28.6	And we get into many things here.
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