Book · 2017 · Business & Economics
The Complacent Class
The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
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- Dwarkesh Patel Discussed
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“So you wrote a book in 2017 called the complacent class and in it you predicted a great reset. You wrote quote at some point our country will face an immediate crisis and there won't be the resources or more fundamentally the flexibility to handle it.”
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“In the complacent class, you predicted that um, after the great reset, uh, dynamism would be with us again. Are you predicting that we'll be dynamic again after the following this crisis?”
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“And um let's talk about your more most recent book business. Now I think I um also see a contradiction between the complacent class and big business. Big business almost reads like a love letter to the complacent class.”
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“Well, you may recall also in the complacent class, I predict that racial issues and segre segregation will be a central part of it because American blacks are so often the most or among the most vulnerable members of our society and trouble will flare there early as a kind of warning signal.”