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Stuart K. Hayashi Many people — this is common among my fellow Japanese-Americans, though I doubt it’s exclusive to my ethnicity — implicitly subscribe to a logical fallacy that can be phrased as: “your own choices were not the main factor in shaping whom you are as an adult; rather, the personalities of all adults were ultimately shaped by their parents [and/or teachers and/or neighbors,

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In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Onkar Ghate, Tristan de Liège, and Robertas Bakula discuss Abundance, the recent best-selling book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson that has gained traction in liberal circles.



Klein and Thompson acknowledge the failings of past liberal policies and present what they call the “abundance agenda” as an alternative. The agenda emphasizes streamlined regulations alongside robust government involvement in production — an approach the authors claim will usher in a new political order.



The discussion covered:




* The book’s central arguments;



* How the “abundance agenda” is unphilosophical and collectivistic;



* How the book’s position on environmentalism reveals its deeper philosophical problems;



* How the book fails to distinguish between coercion and voluntary cooperation;



* How the authors fail to check their premises about government;



* Why the book’s admiration for China is troubling.




The video premiered on May 1, 2025.








Download video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/LVNSnbdEo0o



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"The perverse outcomes resulting from adults seeking to protect children range from the mildly idiotic ... to the morally questionable ... Last week our current Prime Minister and the MP for Tukituki (Hastings), Catherine Wedd, added to this list with a proposal to prevent those under 16 from accessing social media.

"This will prove popular. Foolish ideas often are. Leadership is knowing when to say no ...

"Professor Jonathan Haidt has compiled compelling research on the malign impact of social media on young minds. [In actual fact, not at all compelling - Ed] ...

"Thanks to the work of Haidt and others, responsible — and even irresponsible — parents know of this issue and act accordingly. If we were governed by a party that believed in Individual freedom and choice, personal responsibility and limited government, that is where this story would end. ... [Instead] girls being mean to each other on Snapchat requires central government legislation ...

"What is troubling isn’t [just] the idiocy of the legislation, but that Luxon didn’t instinctively understand that it wasn’t the role of the state to monitor children’s screen time. ..."

~ Damien Grant from his column 'Banning under 16s from social media will prove popular. Foolish ideas often are'