188 | Roy Bahat: How Can We Build a Win-Win Society?

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

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🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Marshall and Saagar’s Book’s of the Year Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/marshall-and-saagar-s-realignment-2021-books-of-the-year Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture firm investing in the future of work and former co-chair of New America’s Shift Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology, joins The Realignment to discuss the challenges facing labor and capital, the future of work, and how the technology can (and can’t) redefine questions of representation and ownership.

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0:00.0	Saga and Marshall here, welcome back to the Realignment.
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0:08.4	Macro economically, you gotta think that as we create more and more consumer surplus,
0:14.0	as the cost of things come down,
0:16.5	the opportunity for win-wins has to grow.
0:20.0	And as we have an economy,
0:22.2	the single economic fact that actually scared me the most is the decline in
0:26.1	the dynamism, because as we have an economy where inventors can get paid and
0:31.6	think something can be made out of nothing, which happens every day in the
0:35.3	United States, it's kind of the business model of the nation.
0:38.1	I guess they just philosophically believe that we should exhaust the win-wins
0:41.2	before we fight each other for the rest.
0:43.2	Maybe it's just, I think what I'm telling you is actually,
0:45.9	I don't know that I've been arguing it for wise more possible.
0:48.0	I have a philosophy that it's better for all of us, no matter what.
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0:57.8	OK, it is almost that time people.
1:00.0	It's December 30th.
1:01.4	It's almost the new year.
1:02.5	So I hope you have your New Year's resolutions ready.
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