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Charles Koch and Brian Hooks joined Sarah and David to discuss their new book, Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World, which is about social entrepreneurship, the principles of human progress, and empowering people to discover their gifts. On today’s show, Koch and Hooks explain how finding common ground with people across the ideological spectrum has helped reorient their approach to public policy reform as it relates to the criminal justice system, education, and more.
Show Notes:
-Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World by Charles G. Koch and Brian Hooks.
-Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies by Charles Koch.
-After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom by Alice Marie Johnson with Nancy French.
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Interesting...I am torn on Mr Koch..some things sound good, others I just don't understand or get how they help everyone that needs it...and I run into that if you aren't doing well, it is because you are a bad person in some way too...I guess it is just a bit too Libertarian to me in some ways?
But, I find it fascinating to listen to
Having listened to this, I wonder how the people they work with in being entrepreneurs learned basic skills like reading that enables them to participate in these various programs. Everything the talked about seemed to be working with adults, or maybe kids in high school. Education is far more than helping someone to "find their passion". To find your passion, you need a lot of building blocks that, at least in this discussion, they didn't left out. Also, they did not seem to really discuss scaling up to the sort of size needed to work broadly. There are many things that work on a small scale that cannot be much bigger than they currently conceived. What do you do with people with learning problems, or mental and physical problems? I am very skeptical of the libertarian approach that seems to be everything can be solved by the private sector. The private sector did not end slavery and win 2 world wars. The private sector fought against slavery and has resisted most things that might upset the status quo, and threaten their privileges.