Brink Lindsey
American political writer; vice president at the Niskanen Center, where he directs the Open Society Project; formerly vice president for research at the Cato Institute; author of The Age of Abundance (2007).
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Today's political crises stem from the problems of mass affluence, which liberalism made possible.
Their wordsFrom my perspective, the problems underlying our political crises are problems of mass affluence, which itself is a world-historical triumph of the first order made possible by liberal values and institutions.
↗Liberalism hasn’t failed, but many liberals sure havebrinklindsey.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsOur contemporary ills, however, do not represent some deep-seated failure in the basic principles of liberalism that has now finally manifested itself.
↗Liberalism hasn’t failed, but many liberals sure havebrinklindsey.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsliberal values and institutions represent our best chance for rising to contemporary challenges, just as they guided us to triumph over those traditional ills.
↗Liberalism hasn’t failed, but many liberals sure havebrinklindsey.substack.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsMy answer to this question is an emphatic yes: there is no way things could have gotten to the current pass without massive failures and blunders by liberals
↗Liberalism hasn’t failed, but many liberals sure havebrinklindsey.substack.com 4th of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsI argue that the connection between economic growth and overall well-being is weakening
↗The progress movement needs a better theory of progressbrinklindsey.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIn my view, we can’t simply be concerned with material progress; progress in overall well-being is the ultimate goal.
↗The progress movement needs a better theory of progressbrinklindsey.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsit’s becoming increasingly plausible that great swathes of contemporary white-collar knowledge work — starting with coding — are going to be automatable, at least as a technical matter, in the relatively near future.
↗Superhuman AI would bring the permanent problem front and centerbrinklindsey.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWhen we’re pondering the prospect that superhuman AI may be just around the corner, what we’re talking about is a massive increase in societal wealth — wealth that holds out both the promise of liberation and empowerment and the threat of marginalization and dehumanization.
↗Superhuman AI would bring the permanent problem front and centerbrinklindsey.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece