<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I listen to Ramsey basically every morning while I open my restaurant. People get so clouded by their emotions that they become literally unable to make rational, long-term choices. <div><br></div><div>Economics is not driven by rational, self-interested actors. If it were, advertising would look completely different.<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>What if we had a Ramsey type podcast for STEM majors that steered them towards transhumanist projects. Wouldn’t that be something?</div><div><br></div><div>I’d listen to that while I work my worst-than-every-other-list-member-job. Ah, I had such high hopes for myself. I suppose I could still do something but I seem to dabble far too much and have now dropped out of college 3 times. Oh well!<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Feb 18, 2020, at 8:22 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Who is doing this “excess saving”? Rich people? Companies? Governments clearly aren’t, because, you know, deficits.<br><br>SR Ballard<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Keith Veronese via extropy-chat<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] A world drowning in excess savings<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…I won't rest until Dave Ramsey is in jail for this. <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ramsey has done untold damage! He is the one who has been encouraging young couples to act with fiscal responsibly. His treacherous un-American tagline: The Dave Ramsey Show, where cash is king, debt is dumb and the paid off mortgage is the new BMW as the status symbol of choice!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Heh. That debt-free scream stuff hasta go too. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>