Slate Money - The Optimism Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann and special guest, Laura Arnold the Co-Chair of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation discuss the economics of Philanthropy.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-Criminal-justice data and algorithms
-The responsibility of philanthropy
-Philanthropy in the age of Trump
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.9 | Hello, and welcome to the optimism edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance |
| 0:19.9 | News of the week. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Felix Hammond of Fusion, and I have been persuaded by my special guest this week to be |
| 0:28.0 | optimistic. I was hanging out with an optimist last night. I am now hanging out in Slate Money |
| 0:36.6 | studios with an optimist. So I feel like on this Thanksgiving edition in Slate Money studios with an optimist. |
| 0:38.2 | So I feel like on this Thanksgiving edition of Slate Money, |
| 0:42.3 | we are going to try our hardest in the midst of a brutal year |
| 0:46.8 | to have a sliver of hope and optimism. |
| 0:50.0 | We will not give in to paranoia. |
| 0:53.4 | That's the alternative title of the episode. |
| 0:56.4 | I am joined, as ever, by Kathy O'Neill, the author of Weapons of Math Destruction. |
| 1:03.2 | Hello. |
| 1:04.0 | By Jordan Weissman, the Moneybox columnist at Slate. |
| 1:07.9 | I kind of wanted to call this the No Surrender Edition as a Bruce |
| 1:11.1 | tribute. And now, as long-term listeners of Slate Money might remember, we have a little bit of a |
| 1:19.4 | tradition here at Slate Money for the Thanksgiving edition to do a kind of philanthropic theme. |
| 1:25.8 | We had Rob Reich and Jesse Isinger on last year, maybe even a year before I lose count of |
| 1:31.6 | these things. And this is the week of Giving Tuesday, where we all like try and give lots of money |
| 1:39.5 | away. We're going to talk about what we can and should do philanthropically, especially in the age of Trump. |
| 1:49.3 | And we have probably the best person to talk about all of this. |
| 1:54.1 | The one and only Laura Arnold. |
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