This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, November 14th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Making the pitch to young people on behalf of what Leonard Reed called the Freedom Philosophy

is more difficult, and yet in many ways much easier today

than in years past. The new president of the Foundation for Economic Education

Sylvinus Salinas describes how his group talks to young people without making

economics and its implications, well, boring is hell.

We spoke last month in Colorado Springs.

Fee is aimed at young people and when they are beginning to form opinions about how the world

works and how the world ought to work, what's the most concerning to you

about how young people and people who are in their 20s now

think about how the world works and how it ought to work.

I think the thing that gets me, the thing that really alarms me is all the good kids,

all the good people, all the kind of the active kids that have sort of a light in their eyes

they think that only if only they were allowed to make decisions for everyone else the world

would be a perfect place so can I have like of have a like, on one hand you have an idealism wanting to make a world a better place,

which I can definitely subscribe to.

On the other hand, the skill set or the tool set that how they imagine they can make the

world a better place is absolutely authoritarian so maybe it's you know maybe it's a

lack of wisdom maybe it's lack of life experience but I bet these young people think, well, if only someone

gave me the magic wand or the power, or if I could appoint the power to people, some good people,

everything would be solved.

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