Welcome to the Tech Policy podcast, your source for policy, rants, raves, diatribes, dialogues, monologues from Tech Freedom,

your Washington, D.C. advocate for the freedom to tinker and innovate. I'm Evan Swartzchstrauber,

your host. On today's show is Washington failing America's

youth when it comes to tech policy. Joining me to discuss this is Jared Meyer, a policy research

fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is the co-author of Disinherited, how Washington is

betraying America's young. And he's also previously appeared on episode 7 and

11 of the Tech Policy podcast to discuss issues related to Uber and the sharing economy. Jared,

thank you for joining me a third time. Well, thanks for having me back, Evan. You're a slow learner.

So, Jared, before we jump into tech, summarize your book generally.

What's it about?

It's pretty much.

It goes through different policies, everything from the national debt to broken entitlement

programs to the Affordable Care Act, K-12 education, student loan debt, minimum wage, occupational

licensing.

It goes through what I thought was a pretty comprehensive

list of ways that government policy favors older, established interest at the expense of millennials'

economic opportunity. So you think it's a comprehensive list, but I couldn't help but notice in your

book that you didn't write a chapter about tech policy, and technology sector is defined by a bunch of millennials

wearing hoodies, including Mark Zuckerberg, really.

So Jared, what the F? Why didn't you write a chapter about tech?

Well, first of all, I'm glad you finally got around to reading my book that came out in May.

Well, let's not be so sure about that. But I think one of the reasons

...