Turn down the gravy train if it costs you your principles
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We're staying we're staying with as soon as we move to DC, we're going to lose all of our principles. We're going to we're going to forget who we are that sorry, they turned down millions of dollars basically a free ride a gravy train on based on principle
Episode 113: Substance Dualism (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:33:20 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Telling the story of Jeff Tucker and the Mises Institute, Dave says the think tank was offered millions in funding on condition that it move to DC, and said no because moving would mean losing its principles and forgetting who it was. You may not agree with everything Tucker thinks, but he's a person of principle.
Not in the audio. Dave hedges the story ('if I remember the story correctly'); the details about the Koch funding offer and the early-1990s timing are his recollection, not verified.