Jason Brennan famous quotes

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My main worry about referendums is that you are taking a very complicated political question that requires knowledge of a bunch of background facts in the social sciences and you're handing that question to people who don't know those facts and in fact, are systematically misinformed about them.
-- Jason Brennan

#People #Worry #Political
I'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from high school a year after they've graduated, they've forgotten most everything about history and civics and everything, and I think the main worry here is that because your individual vote counts for so little, you just don't have a strong incentive to invest in the knowledge, to retain the knowledge, to process information in a rational way.
-- Jason Brennan

#Strong #School #Successful
It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange to say that because it's also elitist to say that to run a radio station requires skill or to be a plumber requires skill and background knowledge.
-- Jason Brennan

#Running #Skills #Radio
For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings.
-- Jason Brennan

#Hurt #Thinking #Differences
The power to regulate the economy is the same thing as the power to distribute favors.
-- Jason Brennan

#Favors #Economy
When I'm crossing the street, I look both ways and I process the information rationally because if I make a mistake I get hurt, but when I cast a vote, kind of regardless of how I voted, doesn't make a difference and that's sort of a recipe for uninformed and irrational voting.
-- Jason Brennan

#Hurt #Mistake #Differences
The problem with voting is that because your individual vote makes very little difference, you're voting with a mass of others, you have very little incentive to take care in carefully considering what your vote would mean.
-- Jason Brennan

#Mean #Differences #Voting

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?
Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
But the Twins opened the fifth with their second and third hits, and Beltre helped Hernandez by taking his bullet throw for a force at third on a bunt try. I felt it, ... My only worry was that he didn't throw me a sinker. He threw hard, but a good fastball.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

Jason Brennan famous quotes

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