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Andrew Yang Podcast

Alexis Ohanian's vision for the future

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian joins to talk about the future of shopping and caregiving — and how technology, used in the right way, can create a more caring, human, and healthy society.

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/105ioHu3AU8

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We have a responsibility to make sure that we get to some kind of sort of decent,

0:07.2

some basic level of decency and equity in this country.

0:09.8

You have this winner take all economy that's just speeding up and COVID speeding it up.

0:16.0

And you're someone who sees the future but still has a perspective to know it's like,

0:21.9

look, like this is going to be great for some people and like not great for others.

0:25.5

It would be awesome if someone was actually trying to figure out like how do I go up for the ladder part of this equation.

0:32.3

For me, this is not even an issue of decency or morality, though it could be.

0:36.3

And it is in part.

0:37.8

But for me, I still take it back to the selfish capitalist reason we should want it,

0:44.6

which is if this system works and we ensure that basic level of decency and opportunity for everyone,

0:53.6

we will get better stuff.

0:56.2

It means I will get better founders to invest in.

0:59.1

I will get a broader range of founders to invest in who will build a greater range of companies to employ more people to build more dope things.

1:05.1

You could frame it as enlightening self-interest as much as now to reason.

1:32.4

It is hard, Andrew.

1:36.0

What keeps you going, man?

1:38.2

How do humanity first?

1:39.6

Well, thank you.

1:40.9

Far, far, far, far from where we're at as a country right now.

1:45.6

How do I keep going, Alexis?

1:47.1

It's a little bit like you and you've been at this for longer than I have and that you've been someone who can make a difference in the world for a number of years.

1:55.1

And when you can make that kind of difference, it's almost impossible not to try.

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