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Image Source I thought that Dr. Davies gave a good presentation on how it is difficult for governmental coercion to work as intended very often, and how cooperation is often a better solution. But there

Image Source @awetsell asked, "Would you say that regulation and coercion are the same thing? If not the same thing, do they have similarities?" Coercion has a more negative connotation than

Image Source Do successful companies use coercion to gain their success? Is coercion a larger problem in governments or private businesses? Would coercion be necessary to stop big tech companies from obtaining

Image Source Is political entrepreneurship necessarily corrupt? Which type of entrepreneurship involves more risk for the entrepreneur? Can market entrepreneurship ever harm the market or the economy?

Image Source @hattiehughs14 asked, "Should we be comfortable with giving all of our information to huge tech companies if it means we can use their products?" This is something I have thought

Image Source How could big tech surveillance threaten democracy? Could government regulations feasibly prevent big tech companies from obtaining personal information about their users? If big tech surveillance

Image Source For a long time, I've had the general sense that donations alone can't solve extreme poverty in other countries, since, at some point, they have to start producing things themselves, but I

Image Source @moneybagley asked, "Do you think the world is past the point of people living in extreme poverty?" Because this world is not -- and can never be -- perfect, I don't think that extreme

Image Source When should poverty be blamed on the system and when should it be blamed on the person in poverty? What kinds of city level, state level, or federal level policies can lead to large amounts

Image Source I've always been aware that healthcare in the U.S. is far too expensive, but I never really knew why. I learned a lot more about the topic when I listened to Dr. Sean Flynn's talk about healthcare

Image Source @moneybagley asked, "What do you think is the biggest factor that contributes to the rise in healthcare costs?" I think that the answer to this question is unregulated greed. Hospitals

Image Source Would government regulation be the best solution to making U.S. healthcare more affordable? Would U.S. hospitals have lower quality services if U.S. healthcare became cheaper? Should the U.S.

Image Souce @nsiske asked, "Do you think regulation needs to exist to regulate how much data Google can collect, and/or even sell?" I often forget that Google has access to a large amount of

Image Source Why does Google have so much power over so many people's lives? Why have people come to rely on Google (and similar search engines) so heavily? Overall, is the existence of search engines

Image Source NFTs could be the most bizarre things produced in the last few years; I have heard them explained in so many ways, yet I feel that I still barely understand what they are and how they work.

Image Source @generalfritz14 asked, "Are high NFT sales in the 6 or 7 figures just another form of money laundering, or are they actually worth that amount?!" When I was first introduced to the

Image Source What is the value people see in NFT's when they invest thousands to millions of dollars into NFT's? Could NFT's (or something similar) have existed without blockchain technology? How can some

Image Source The thing that interested me the most about Dr. Trost's presentation on Universal Basic Income (OSU Video) is that the proposition of UBI seems to be more compatible with capitalism than it

Image Source @generalfritz14 asked, "Would a Universal Basic Income only come from increased taxes on the wealthy? Could it come from other places?" When I thought about universal basic income

Image Source If the United States government provided a universal basic income for all of its citizens, what could be done to keep people motivated to work? How could the government afford to provide a