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Lost Debate

Ep 71 | Neumann Comeback, Productivity Scores, Liz Cheney, Student Progress

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Rikki and Ravi start by discussing the return of disgraced WeWork founder Adam Neumann before turning to the growing trend of “worker productivity scores,” Liz Cheney’s resounding defeat in Wyoming, and a few fascinating sets of data on student progress and performance. Finally, Ravi hits us with another one of his radical ideas.  [03:15] Adam Neumann’s comeback? [19:06] Worker Productivity Scores [27:55] Liz Cheney’s loss [35:20] Student Progress Data [48:30} Ravi’s Radical Idea Check out our show notes: https://lostdebate.com/2022/08/19/ep-71/ Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Sticher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iheart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Follow Lost Debate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0

A staggering amount of American workplaces, everything from McDonald's to Fortune 500 companies

0:04.7

where people in white-collar jobs are being tracked with more intrusive technologies than ever before.

0:11.3

And it's interesting seeing that this has been historically very common in low-paying jobs.

0:16.9

And now that it's climbing up the chain with remote work, now we're kind of all morally outraged about it.

0:25.9

Welcome to The Lost Debate Show for Politically Clectics. I'm Robbie Gupta.

0:29.2

And I'm Ricky Schlaught.

0:30.1

Well, Ricky, I think the zeitgeist is continuing to grapple with your appearance on Bill Maher.

0:34.7

Tell me a little bit about the past 24 hours here.

0:37.3

It didn't end up

0:38.1

being as disastrous as I expected it to be, but essentially what happened on Twitter is it started

0:42.5

with this clip that fire the Free Speech Ork that I work for posted of me talking to Pears Morgan.

0:48.1

I'm a member of a generation that never really was taught the principles of free speech and what

0:52.3

it means to be a classical liberal and who John Stuart Mill is and why that's such a precious thing to our society.

1:00.0

And, you know, growing up and going to a school like NYU and seeing that on the back of my

1:04.3

ID card, we have, here's the emergency hotline and here's who to call if you're sick.

1:09.6

And then here's the bias report hotline if you're sick and then here's the bias report hotline

1:11.1

if you're offended. The what? The bias report hotline. In case you're offended, there's a phone number on the back of your ID part. Wait, it's really called that? It's called the bias report hotline. Yes. On the back of our ID at NYU. It's a hotline? It's a hotline in case you're offended and your feelings are poked and prodded and unfortunately...

1:29.3

Who answers the phone when you called?

1:31.3

I've never called it when I was there.

1:33.3

But I'm someone at the university.

1:35.3

It's on the university card.

1:36.3

And then they do what?

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