This audio Mises Daily, excerpted from the audiobook version, is narrated by John Pruden.
<![CDATA[The Chimera of a Perfect State of Mankind]]>
It is man's nature to strive ceaselessly after the substitution of more satisfactory conditions for less satisfactory. This motive stimulates his mental energies and prompts him to act. Life in a perfect frame would reduce man to a purely vegetative existence, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).
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