14 – BJJ Millennial Burnout Generation w/ Christian Fagan

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We covered so much in this informative episode, we're just going to explain it via bullet points:

• Being a D1 wrestler, BJJ'er, and an academic during late stage capitalism
• Meritocracy AKA doing everything right and still being fucked
• Problems of health care and how one medical emergency can upend your whole life
• Dangers of post-concussion syndrome (and how little we still know about the brain)
• Magic the Gathering & professional poker
• Game theory & trickle-down economics
• The MMA Info Wars culture
• How living the BJJ lifestyle is very hard to do unless you're rich
• Batman, Iron Man, TED talks, and the creation of the anarcho-capitalist white billionaire superhero
• Hard math vs. everything else
• Market solutions when there are no rational actors (and old irrational economists resisting behavioral economics)
• Private solutions to public problems
• When you're hurting, a sociopath will say fuck everyone else; if you're empathetic, you'll wonder how others are also suffering
• Prosperity gospel (loving the rich and hating the poor)
• How CEOs and YouTubers replaced public intellectuals and made us dumber

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