Imagining a more just economy with Nick Romeo

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Every week on Hello Monday we talk about the nature of work. Today, we’re taking a look at the systems our work upholds. Here in the US it’s capitalism– an economic system where the show is largely run by private entities. It’s a system that’s often critiqued for making it easier for the wealthy to amass more wealth, without offering similar mobility for the working class. Today’s guest isn’t afraid to envision a new way of living and working. Nick Romeo is a writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Alternative: How To Build A Just Economy. In his book, Nick imagines a more sustainable economy and today he sits down with Jessi to discuss what that would take.Follow Nick Romeo on LinkedIn and check out his book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now in paperback. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:05.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill and this is Hello Monday. Nearly every day I commute to work on the subway.
0:14.0	I live in New York. Nearly every day I commute to work on the subway.
0:24.3	I live in New York.
0:25.8	I get off in midtown to go to my job,
0:28.0	which is a pretty good job by most standards.
0:30.4	I mean I get paid enough, at least enough to support my family.
0:34.0	I don't worry about the occasional doctors bill.
0:37.0	I'm okay.
0:39.0	And every day to get to this office of mine I walk down a subway platform where
0:45.1	homeless people are struggling to stay warm and I think how can I be morally
0:51.1	okay with this?
0:54.4	But then I go to the office.
0:57.0	Because what's more true is that our entire system
1:00.2	is rife with inequities. Businesses have a relentless focus on the bottom line
1:06.0	that sometimes feels as though it's alienating people
1:09.0	in pursuit of profit.
1:10.0	The rich keep getting richer
1:12.0	while poor and working-class people struggle.
1:15.0	I'm not saying anything here that we don't talk about on this show in many large
1:22.0	and small ways all the time.
1:25.0	And in many of the conversations we'd had in the last year
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