Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

Thank you.

All right.

That's a good, good.

All right.

Here are the overtime questions.

For Ali, as a business and economic supporter, do you think it's wise for corporations to take

stances on divisive issues that can possibly cause financial blowback?

Oh, well, that's certainly much in the news these days.

Yeah.

Well, I think there's a couple of issues here.

It's, we have a, you were talking about immigration earlier.

Immigration is an imperative because we have a worker problem in this country.

We are short of workers.

We were short of workers before the pandemic.

So what you find with companies, despite the Gen Z students with whom, the young people

with whom you have some concerns, they don't have loyalty to their company.

So companies find that they have to do things that satisfy these employees in order to keep

them and not keep churning through them.

And one of the things, one of the biggest things that polling and surveys by companies show

that workers want right now is their companies to take positions on matters that are important

to them.

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