Proof of stake
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Midroll Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Who gets to vote
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.
You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the workshops at akimbo.com .
To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe you should move. If you live in the United States and you want your vote to count, maybe you should move, hey, |
| 0:07.8 | it's Seth and |
| 0:09.8 | this is a Kimbo |
| 0:16.5 | We'll be back in a second to talk about voting of all kinds, but first, here's a message from our sponsor |
| 0:23.4 | Creative isn't who you are. It's what you do along the way creativity has gotten a mystical rap as if it's some sort of gift |
| 0:34.1 | It's not. It's a choice. It's a skill. If you have a job where you get to decide what you do, you are a creative a |
| 0:41.4 | Working creative and you can get better at it |
| 0:43.9 | I'm thrilled to say that the creative's workshop is back the most active of all the Kimbo workshops |
| 0:51.0 | It's about people who want to level up and make a difference with their creative work |
| 0:56.0 | I hope you'll check it out. Visit a Kimbo.com slash go for all the upcoming workshops. Go make a ruckus |
| 1:05.4 | Yes, it's true for Californians your vote in the Senate is one |
| 1:11.4 | 53rd as important as it is for someone from Wyoming meaning the people in Wyoming have more than 50 times as much impact |
| 1:20.6 | On how the Senate decides things in the United States and when it comes to presidential elections |
| 1:26.5 | They have more than four times as much impact as someone who lives in California |
| 1:32.2 | That's because the United States is not a republic with the democracy |
| 1:36.6 | It's a little bit more twisted than that and it's easy to look at voting is something that we do here every two or four years |
| 1:45.2 | But in fact people vote all the time. We don't necessarily vote with ballots |
| 1:50.8 | But there's voting going on and it's worth a discussion about how we decide who gets the vote and how much a vote counts |
| 2:00.4 | So consider for example a proxy fight at a public company if you own a share in a public company |
| 2:07.4 | You get the vote on who's on the board of directors the board of directors gets the vote on how the company is run |
| 2:14.8 | if they're doing their job |
| 2:16.8 | The thing is the more shares you own the more votes you get and when it comes to public companies |
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