Amazon Under Attack, and Household Financial Stress
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss the problem of household financial stress. They also debate whether current criticisms of Amazon are justified.
Suggested Reading
- “Is Amazon Unstoppable?” (Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker)
- “Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan” (Franklin Foer, The Atlantic)
Some recent picks:
- “In Hoffa’s Shadow” (by Jack Goldsmith)
- “Dopesick” (by Beth Macy)
- Dear White People (Netflix)
- 1619: The Birth of American Music (podcast)
- PRI’s The World (podcast)
- American Factory (Netflix)
- Darren Brown: Secret (Broadway)
- Succession (HBO)
You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
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| 0:23.4 | slash after hours. Thanks. |
| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hi everyone you're listening to after hours I'm young me and I'm here with |
| 0:47.6 | Felix and me here hey guys how are you so you know last week in one of my recommendations Mehere ended up putting on that Korean |
| 0:56.2 | beauty mask? |
| 0:57.2 | I have no idea what you're talking about. |
| 0:58.3 | Unfortunately the site is sort of stuck in my mind. |
| 1:05.0 | So, okay, one of the things I mentioned was that my inspiration for beginning to wear them on planes was the fact that I walked onto a plane once and I saw a |
| 1:13.9 | woman wearing one. So the best email that we got all week was from shout out to |
| 1:20.3 | Harvey in New Jersey. He said his wife does this and was probably the woman that I saw doing it. |
| 1:27.0 | No, no, what a creature! |
| 1:29.0 | She swears by it on overnight flights and not only are they a fan of the Korean beauty treatment |
| 1:35.2 | but based on your recommendation me here they went to see Darren Brown in New York and |
| 1:40.4 | and loved it oh fantastic that is great that is a great email yes so |
| 1:45.2 | shout out to Harvey and his wife in New Jersey and by the way thanks for all the |
| 1:50.4 | email it's been fantastic it's just been so great with the end of the |
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