If you have a business rival, this is how you take them down. Give them Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist, and tell them it's your “secret to success.” They'll be out of business in a few years.

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So, can we safely assume that Lee Zeldin read The Rational Optimist?
Basically the Bible of science deniers who don't want to be called "science deniers"... and soon to be out of business entrepreneurs.

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A small sample of an upcoming video essay on the perils of toxic optimism, which is redundant since all optimism is Toxic.

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Optimism might be the greatest disease of the 21st century. Rejecting optimism and embracing HOPE was one of the pillars of the civil rights movement.

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