Alexis Ohanian's vision for the future
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K 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.
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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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