Complacent Confessions: Malcolm Gladwell & Others Share Their Most Complacent Moments
Channel: Mercatus Center
Date: 22/03/2017

Ordering UberEATS to your hotel room so you don't have to talk to another person, cancelling a credit card because you didn't want to go back to the bar you left it at last night, binge watching episodes of Law & Order on Netflix. Sound familiar?

In this video, Malcolm Gladwell, Derek Thompson, Mercatus employees, and others share some of their most complacent moments. 

They're not alone. Americans are working harder than ever to avoid change. They are moving residences less, marrying people more like themselves and choosing music and mates based on algorithms that wall them off from anything that might be too new or too different. 

This rise of American complacency is a major theme in Tyler Cowen's new book, "The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream." 

How complacent are you? Take our quiz and find out!
http://tylercowen.com/complacent-class-quiz/

Buy the book: https://www.mercatus.org/publications/complacent-class

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