‘How to Build a Happy Life’? Avoid Twitter Turmoil 11/30/22

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Elon Musk’s tweets at Tim Cook have renewed conversations about finding common ground in an increasingly polarized public discourse. Host of “How to Build a Happy Life” Arthur Brooks urges American business leaders to stay out of the country’s culture war, and he warns against going down Musk’s Twitter rabbithole. In Washington, President Biden and lawmakers are working to avoid a railroad union strike. Plus, China is still in the throes of unrest, and Andrew Ross Sorkin is gearing up for a big interview with embattled FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried at The New York Times DealBook Summit. In this episode: Arthur Brooks, @arthurbrooks Becky Quick @BeckyQuick Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Cameron Costa, @CameronCostaNY

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm C and B.C. producer Cameron Costa, and this is Squawk Pod.
0:09.0	Is this Twitter's fault in the first place?
0:13.2	A polarized American public, activist employees,
0:17.1	and Elon Musk's free speech tweets.
0:20.1	Where in the world is our common ground?
0:23.0	Host of How to Build a Happy Life podcast,
0:26.0	writer for the Atlantic, and professor at Harvard, Arthur Brooks.
0:30.0	On Twitter, it looks like we all hate each other,
0:32.0	we're ready for secession movements and civil war.
0:34.6	It's not true, and it only becomes true if we believe the activist minority.
0:39.8	And chess in Washington, union negotiations, and averting a rail strike.
0:45.6	Think if every time you didn't want a strike, you just pass the law against a strike.
0:48.9	Then what is it? Then you're not really pro-union.
0:51.5	So what did you think when Reagan did it?
0:53.4	Well, now wait a second, hold on now.
0:56.7	Plus the latest on China's protests
0:59.5	and prepping for a newsmaking interview.
1:02.2	Andrews sit down with former FTX CEO Sam Begman-Free.
1:07.0	I hope that we can do this for the public's benefit so we can try to untangle so much of what has happened here.
1:13.0	It's Wednesday, November 30th, and Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:18.0	Stand Becky by in three, two, one, queue please.
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