Money Talks: Under the Spell of Someone Else’s Wealth

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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For this Money Talks, Emily Peck chats with Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind. His new novel Entitlement explores what happens when normal people enter the lives of the super-rich. Rumaan and Emily discuss class, opportunity, and how the ego and conceit of wealth can be contagious. Want more Slate Money? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes for each regular Slate Plus episode. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the Slate Money show page. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This ad-free podcast is part of your Slate Plus membership. Hello and welcome to Money Talks, a special extra podcast from Slate Money where we chat with
0:19.2	brilliant and interesting people. I'm Emily Peck. I'm a co-host of Slate Money and I'm here today with
0:24.8	Ruman Alam. He's the author of the New York Times Best Selling Novel, Leave the World Behind,
0:29.7	which was a finalist for the National Book Award and made into a great Netflix movie
0:34.1	starring Julia Roberts. More impressive he's been a podcaster for slate and this
0:38.9	week his latest novel entitlement is out. Ruman, welcome to Money Talks.
0:43.5	Thank you so much, Emily.
0:44.8	We don't often talk about fiction or novels on slate money,
0:48.6	but I thought Entitlement really gets to the heart of so many things
0:52.2	we're talking about on a business
0:53.5	and finance podcast if you can believe it we talk about inequality all the time we
0:58.3	talk about like the weird proclivities of billionaires and how wealth in class can distort relationships
1:05.2	and people.
1:06.2	I mean, that's where this book I think really shines.
1:08.6	So we'll get into all that and more when we come back on Money Talks.
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1:36.7	marine notes.
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