Is Money Bad Or Good?: A Paradigm Shift On Wealth with Susanna Mittermaier
Is Money Bad Or Good?: A Paradigm Shift On Wealth with Susanna Mittermaier
If money makes the world go round, does it make it a bad thing or not? What does it say about us when we desire wealth in our lives? In this eye-opening episode, host Dr. Diane Hamilton sat down with psychologist and founder of Pragmatic Psychology, Susanna Mittermaier, to talk about wealth from a psychological standpoint. They answer questions about how money is perceived in this world, breaking down what is deemed evil as relative to how we perceive it. Having the willingness to have an amount of money is not necessarily bad, and Susanna explains this by tapping into the role of judgments, capitalism and socialism, perceptions, and ethics. She tackles the purpose of money and lays down the pragmatics to creating it.
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Advancing The Economy Into The Next Stage Of Capitalism with Andrew Yang
The current set of economic and social changes has led to what has been an unpredictable result in the election of 2016. Seeing so many young people who reminded him of himself at the law firm where they didn’t like their jobs and were searching for meaning, entrepreneur and author Andrew Yang realized that we’re pouring water into a bathtub that has a giant pool ripped in the bottom. This led him to decide to run for president as a Democrat in 2020. Andrew’s platform is to help advance the economy into the next stage of capitalism that will have people being the center of the economy as opposed to being economic inputs into a larger system. He has worked in startups and early stage growth companies as a founder or executive for almost twenty years.
In 2011, he founded Venture for America, a national entrepreneurship fellowship that’s helped create almost 3000 jobs. In his book, The War on Normal People, he explains the mounting crisis of the automation of labor and makes the case for a freedom dividend, also known as the universal basic income of $1,000 a month, for every American as well as other policies to progress to the next stage of capitalism. Andrew gives a little background of why he started his company and what led him to this point in his life going to the next step.
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