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🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Tristan. |
0:05.0 | Welcome to your undivided detention. |
0:08.0 | When we think about the health of societies, |
0:12.0 | whether we acknowledge it or not, a major part of |
0:14.2 | what we're talking about is whether the economy is working or not. Because when the |
0:18.2 | system is going well, we have confidence that working harder will lead to more |
0:22.0 | rewards, more opportunities, that we have |
0:25.0 | have a stable and meaningful place in society. |
0:26.0 | We don't have to worry about whether our bills are going to get paid or |
0:29.0 | whether we can afford to send our kids to school or have enough money for retirement, |
0:32.0 | people become more cooperative, violence falls. |
0:35.6 | But when the system isn't going well, people start to feel pessimistic, resentful, and things |
0:41.2 | start to feel zero sum. The more you have, the less I have. |
0:45.0 | In a lot of 2024 election polling, a lot of voters are saying that what matters to the most |
0:50.0 | is which president would translate into better economic prospects for me and my family. |
0:55.0 | So how is the economy going? |
0:56.7 | How would we even know? |
0:58.1 | And how would we think about this? |
1:00.0 | Do we think about the growth of societies and the amount of stuff we're producing? Do we think about the growth of societies and the amount of stuff we're producing? |
1:04.8 | Do we think about the unemployment rate and who's working and who's not? |
1:08.0 | Do we think about inequality and distribution and who's getting what? |
1:12.2 | And that's Daniel Barquet, who's our new executive director at Center for Human Technology, |
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