The Way the World Works: A Tuttle Twins Podcast for Families

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303. What Is The Draft? May 30, 2022

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In a free society, should the government be able to make individuals go off to war and face the possibility of dying? Unfortunately, the government has done this with something we call the "draft."

302. Why Is It Wrong to Make Children Share? May 27, 2022

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Kids are taught from a very early age that they need to share with others in order to be good members of society. But is this a really a good thing? When kids are taught that everything they own must be shared in order for us to live in a "fair" society, it opens the door to socialism.

301. What Does The Rainbow Fish Get Wrong? May 25, 2022

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The "Rainbow Fish" is a best-selling kid's book. While the book has beautiful illustrations, it has a dangerous message that teaches kids a dangerous message about giving away what is theirs to make other people happy.

300. What Does "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" Teach Us about Government? May 23, 2022

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If you give a mouse a cookie, they are going to want some milk to go with it ... if you give the government a little bit of power, they are going to want even more.

299. Does Every Entrepreneur Start Out As A Success? May 20, 2022

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Failing is important to succeeding. And even the most successful entrepreneurs had to fail before they become wealthy and successful.

298. What's The Problem with Only Caring About The Short-Run? May 18, 2022

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To make good choices, you have to understand both the long-term consequences and the short-term consequences.

297. Do We Have The Right to Other People's Labor? May 16, 2022

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People seem to think that they are owed the work someone else does. They demand that successful people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos give people their money, which is really their time and labor, without having to do any work for it.

296. What Is The Great Reset? May 13, 2022

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A lot of politicians want to use the pandemic to usher in a new kind of world that gives governments more power and hurts individual liberty.

295. What Does The Lorax Get Wrong? May 11, 2022

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The Dr. Seuss story, "The Lorax" is a classic. But the book gets a lot of things wrong when it comes to environmentalism and capitalism.

294. What Is Brain Drain? May 09, 2022

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