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Make Me Smart

Can I help fight inflation and still have fun?

Make Me Smart

Marketplace

News, Business

4.65.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It’s listener question time! A few weeks ago, Kai Ryssdal said consumers who want to help slow our inflated economy should stop spending money. But now one of our listeners wants to know if there’s anything they can do with their disposable income that helps the economy but is also fun. We offer some advice. Plus, the hosts take more of your questions on what role the dark web might play in a post-Roe era, and more than one question about gas prices!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, well, Carlos, let's just go, man. Come on, you need to make a sit here for another 45 second or you're Charlton Parker one.

0:06.0

Justin.

0:08.7

Hello, I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today. It makes sense.

0:14.7

Revecational disparaging remarks about our very talented audio engineers. I'm Connor Rizzo. Thank you for joining us on Wednesday. It is what he wanted to know Wednesday.

0:22.2

We're going to get smarter together by the questions you all send us. And then the answers that Kimberly and I either know or that Marissa and the

0:29.0

amazing production staff have helped us figure out the answers to. That's what we do. Yes, mainly the latter, but we'll go with this.

0:36.6

If you have a question about the economy or business or technology, go ahead and email us. Make me smart at Marketplace.org or you can leave us a voicemail. Our number is 508. You be smart.

0:48.8

Question number one today comes from Bill. He is in the great state of New York and he writes this with the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion rights.

0:55.5

Will there be an increase in abortion services being offered through the dark web over to you, oh, host of Marketplace Tech?

1:02.5

Oh, thank you, Kyra's doll. So for people who maybe

1:07.3

sorry, hey, I will meet you where you are.

1:12.4

For people who may not know the dark web usually refers to just sections of the internet that we're all sorts of nasty things happen.

1:20.5

Generally, it's part of the internet that you may not be able to find just through like an easy search.

1:26.4

It'll exist on sort of like a secondary layer. It's where a lot of criminal activity happens.

1:31.8

And you know, often sometimes it's where people go to do things on the internet that they don't necessarily want other folks to know about.

1:39.2

But lose terminology. Anyhow, will that happen? It's probably too soon to tell.

1:45.3

But experts in general say when you ban or you make something illegal, you can expect a black market to pop up for it.

1:54.0

I mean, the decades and decades before weed was widely criminalized.

1:59.3

You know, show that you make it illegal and people find a way around it.

2:02.7

And so, you know, this is something that advocates for legal abortion services have said over and over again that you can't actually ban abortion.

2:13.6

What you're doing is making abortion illegal, but people will still seek set abortions.

2:19.3

And therefore, they end up getting them, you know, in the infamous back alleys or in ways that may not be as safe as doing it in a clinic or a doctor's office.

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