IN PRAISE OF INEFFICIENCY: SHOULD WE SERVE THE ECONOMY OR SHOULD IT SERVE US?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It’s become a virtual religion among America’s CEO class: maximize efficiency no matter what it does to customers, communities, or employees - Inefficiency, it turns out, has considerable upsides. The wealthy with cushy desk jobs want YOU to work until you're 70. Interview: Gabriela Sandoval PhD, Executive Director of the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute (EWDI). Plus, Here's one way to get to one party rule - just "cancel" the democratic party. Also, a shocking new bill proposed in Texas would force internet providers to block access to any website that carries information about abortion medication or tells women how to get an abortion.
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| 0:46.8 | And greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, |
| 0:52.8 | freedom and the American way. |
| 0:55.7 | Gabriela Sandevolphd is going to be with us. |
| 0:59.2 | The head of a new group called the excessive wealth disorder institute, excessivewealth.org is the website. |
| 1:06.7 | It's fascinating, we will be talking with her. |
| 1:09.2 | Also, the wealthy with cushy desk jobs now want you to work until you're 70, |
| 1:13.9 | weirdly, Senator Angus King is leading this charge. |
| 1:17.1 | Also, there's just one way to get to one party rule, just cancel the democratic party. |
| 1:21.4 | Yep, they're trying to do that in Florida. |
| 1:23.6 | And a shocking new bill proposed in Texas would force internet providers to block access to any |
| 1:29.1 | website that carries information about abortion medication or tells women how to get an abortion. |
| 1:34.4 | This is truly breathtaking. |
| 1:36.6 | But to start the program off, my op-ed today, in praise of inefficiency. |
| 1:41.7 | Should we serve the economy or should the economy serve us? |
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