I would love to hear UIN on what I believe is the pernicious role of metrics in the workplace

and in the economy. I have a few questions about the upcoming recession.

Rising wages should be a separate discussion when you're talking about inflation,

but everything I hear in the media is saying that rising wages is bad because it's contributing

to inflation and hopefully you're trusting that in your book and maybe you can comment on this question.

From the home offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle, this is Pitchfork Economics,

with Nick Hanauer, the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.

I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures.

I'm David Goldstein, senior fellow at Civic Ventures.

Happy New Year, Nick. You make any New Year's resolutions?

No, I need to do that, don't I?

Yeah, yeah, I made a New Year's resolution and that is Nick. I resolved to do a better job

of answering more of our listener questions.

Okay, well, that sounds terrific.

Which is why today we are recording an AMA and ask me anything.

Our voicemail inbox has been overflowing with questions and as we kick off the New Year,

we thought it would be a good idea to clear that voicemail box out.

Excellent. Let's get to it.

Hey Nick, this is Rich from California. Here's my question.

Based on everything you guys have said and I've read, rising wages should make it possible

for people to afford more expensive things and therefore it should be a separate discussion

when you're talking about inflation and rising wages. But everything I hear in the media

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