Episode 8. Your Last 10,000 Grandpas Made Exactly The Same Amount Of Money

If you line up your 10,000 grandpas all the way back to the dawn of Homo sapiens, we are the absolute anomaly. Today we explore the 12,000-year financial flatline of humanity, how liberal democratic capitalism spiked the graph, and why the speed of modern change is making us feel depersonalized. Plus, how to cope with the whiplash, and a review of the most unhinged new A24 documentary series on HBO. Timestamps:00:00 - Intro: Arguing with a hallucinating AI in the Brooklyn bunker02:18 - The "10,000 Grandpas" theory of human history06:14 - Thomas Guides vs. Unprompted Chipotle notifications09:27 - Farm irrigation by canal vs. The modern sleep score11:51 - Liberal Democratic Capitalism & the 12,000-year financial flatline16:16 - How to survive the whiplash (Fukuyama & Sebastian Junger’s Tribe)19:58 - Review: Why HBO’s Neighbors is television gold