Does Society Really Need More Elon Musks?

Matter of Opinion

New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Ross Douthat, News, New York Times, Journalism

4.2 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Will technology — and the people who make it — lead us into a better future? Or a worse one? This week on “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts discuss Elon Musk, techno-optimism and the manifesto taking Silicon Valley by storm. Plus, we learn that Ross wears dad drag.

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0:00.7	What are your kids gonna be for Halloween, Carlos?
0:04.0	I don't know.
0:04.8	They have really obscure, like,
0:07.6	shows and books that they like.
0:09.9	And so they pick, like, random characters
0:12.2	that I've never heard of.
0:13.5	Like, no one's like Iron Man or something.
0:16.6	What are your kids gonna be, Russ?
0:19.2	Our older daughters are going to be French noble women.
0:23.4	Mm-hmm.
0:24.8	They have acquired the high wigs, the tall wigs,
0:29.8	and then the little Rosy, she wants to be Anna from Frozen.
0:34.7	Is that still going on, I mean?
0:36.3	Frozen, if you keep having children, the cycle.
0:39.2	There's always new kids.
0:40.8	I still have PTSD from a bus trip the year Frozen came out
0:44.0	and they sang the damn theme song for the entire trip
0:47.3	from Washington to Philadelphia.
0:49.7	Let it go.
0:50.8	It's almost my dreams.
0:52.3	Let it go.
0:53.5	Oh, gross!
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