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Inside the Hive

Are Evil Capitalist Overlords Ruining Our Lives?

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

News

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Is Bernie right—has capitalism broken America beyond repair? Yancey Strickler, former CEO of Kickstarter and author of the book, “This Could Be Our Future,” joins Nick to explain how Wall Street, game theory, and the disgusting modern day-business habit of maximizing shareholder value, has destroyed our democracy, and how we can fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Season 2 of Julia, the Max Original Series about the Life and Times of Julia Child returns

0:09.5

Thursday, November 16th.

0:11.6

Stream on Max and listen to dishing on Julia, the official companion

0:15.6

podcast. Welcome to Inside the Hive. This is Nick Bilton, your host with still with a cold and bronchitis and all that stuff, but hang in there, I'm not going to cough this week.

0:27.6

I have an amazing guest who wrote an incredible book that I actually devoured an entire plane ride.

0:33.0

Yancey, you want to introduce yourself?

0:35.0

You want to tell people who you are?

0:37.0

Sure, yeah.

0:38.0

That's not the game.

0:40.0

That's not the show.

0:41.0

Yeah, so my name is Yancey Strickler. I've written a book that came out just a few weeks ago called

0:48.1

This Could Be Our Future, a Manifesto for a more generous world. In a previous life, I'm a co-founder of Kickstarter

0:55.3

and was the CEO of that for a few years.

0:57.5

And then in a previous life before that,

0:59.3

I was a music critic.

1:00.6

A muse, that was probably the most fascinating part for the book for me.

1:03.4

So you and I met years and years ago.

1:05.4

We didn't see each other in a long time.

1:07.0

We both look a little older.

1:09.2

The book, it's so funny because I actually heard about the book through a friend who's an economist who is kind of struggling with the same thing we're all struggling with right now around capitalism and democracy and the world that we found, what I found so fascinating, so you structure the book in two parts. It's part one, which is the mess that we have created

1:34.9

that we are currently living in.

1:37.0

And then part two is a solution.

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