Hello and welcome to the better does worse edition of Slate Money,

your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Samo of Axios. I'm joined by Emily Peck of Fundrise.

Hello, hello. By Stacy Marie Ishmael of Bloomberg.

Hello.

And in this here, Shane and Roth produced show, we are going to talk about Better, which is actually

a mortgage company and a atrocious way of laying people off.

We're going to have a whole conversation about is there a good way of laying people off in

firings and all of that kind of thing.

In a context we have to say of firings and layoffs being basically

less common and virtually non-existent these days. We are going to talk about 15 minute

grocery delivery. It's a thing now. Is it a good thing? Is it a good thing is it a bad thing we will

work that one out we are going to talk about voting and whether you need to be a

citizen to be able to do it we have a slate plus about inflation. It's all coming up on slate money.

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So let's start by talking about better.com the place that does everything better worse

Stacey what is better dot com and what did they do worse? Well I could start with what they did worse which is the reason that any of us are talking about better dot com is because their CEO a person in Vichal Garg, laid off 900 employees by Zoom in, you know, being laid off by

Zoom, I guess it's 2021, but the way that he did it was remarkable and it really has once again triggered a conversation

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