Making Sense of the China-NBA Firestorm, and Debating the Wealth Tax
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai try to make sense of the firestorm sparked by the NBA’s clash with China. They also debate the merits of a wealth tax of the kind proposed by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
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| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hi everyone you're listening to after hours I'm young me and I'm here with |
| 0:47.5 | Felix and me here hey guys hey young me hey Felix hey Felix hey Felix how are you good so |
| 0:51.6 | Felix you were just telling us about some concert you went to. Yes. So I saw the show by David Byrne, the talking head singer, and it's amazing. It's just really wonderful. |
| 1:04.0 | It actually takes place in an actual theater, so it's not in a concert venue. |
| 1:08.0 | So it's literally these 12 musicians on stage, |
| 1:11.0 | and they march in ever new formation. It's a really strange thing, but at the |
| 1:18.3 | same time it's completely captivating. |
| 1:20.5 | That sounds fantastic. |
| 1:21.5 | I do like these aging rockers when they try to |
| 1:24.8 | reinvent themselves in a new way that enables their audience to sit down. |
| 1:29.0 | Bruce Springsteen did that last year and first of all I think it's a more dignified way to age as opposed to trying to recreate the magic |
| 1:39.4 | Are you thinking of Mick Jagger? I didn't name names. Well it's also as to your point young me it's kind of about |
| 1:45.5 | reinvention right so it's so inspiring to see somebody like Byrne who's like the master |
| 1:49.3 | of reinvention kind of get good at reinventing himself and then to do it in a venue that's more |
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