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One of the ways we got to the situation we're in, Nick, is that people didn't think a lot about how the economy worked.

They just sort of accepted the graphs that were in their Econ 101 textbook and the memes and narratives

that were passed on in the political sphere.

And what makes this so exciting and that it's really what drives us in doing this is

in doing this is actually getting people to challenge

those orthodox assumptions and think through the economy again in a creative and innovative way.

That's right. And you know economics affects everyone's life so much.

Part of the point of the podcast is to democratize the discussion of it to give

more people more facility for understanding it challenging orthodoxy and helping think it through.

Yeah, letting people confidently embrace the idea that economics is a choice.

Yep.

And we get to choose the kind of economy we want and if you want to help us in that

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