Religion is a functionally unmatched cultural technology for creating human cooperation, coordination, and sacrifice across time horizons, and as it weakens, no replacement technology has been developed.

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Tyler Cowen

Evidence Quote

religion is a functionally unmatched...cultural technology that enhances human cooperation cohesion. And as religion weakens...we have not replaced that with any other technology cultural or otherwise that is able to create cooperation, practically long-term cooperation...with anything of even nearly matched power. [39:56]

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Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda | Conversations with TylerMercatus Center
Created: 8/11/2026, 8:01:31 AM

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