Could Global Inequality Actually Be…Good?
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss what the decline in global economic inequality really means for our future, why you shouldn’t take luxury pictures right after you burn an industry to the ground, and why the Instant Pot couldn’t survive.
In the Plus segment: Felix’s piece on why you shouldn’t stress about commercial real estate.
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times in other places. |
| 0:24.3 | Hello. |
| 0:25.5 | Emily, so if you want to sum up this episode, would you say that the first segment |
| 0:30.9 | is me saying that inequality going down is good, but then the second |
| 0:35.3 | segment is me saying that inequality is also fine. |
| 0:38.3 | Yes, yes, Felix, that is what I would, I think sums it up nicely. |
| 0:43.0 | It's very complicated for you. |
| 0:45.0 | We are going to talk about inequality. |
| 0:47.0 | This is the big news that I wrote about this week, |
| 0:50.0 | which is not really new news. |
| 0:52.0 | It's been going on for the past 20 years or so but |
| 0:54.4 | inequality is coming down this is good right we're gonna discuss there are |
| 0:59.8 | reasons why some people think it might not be. We are going to talk about instant pot and |
| 1:05.3 | they're bankruptcy. We are also going to talk and this is really why we all |
| 1:10.7 | came together today about posting images of your fabulous beach |
| 1:17.4 | lifestyle when you have caused financial harm to other people. Is this insensitive or is this just what people do these days |
| 1:26.2 | when they go on holiday as a food? It's on Instagram and there's even a slate plus which I can |
| 1:31.0 | highly recommend you listen to all about commercial real estate. |
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