Welcome to The Lost Debate of Shofor Politically Ecclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta and a bit of housekeeping to start off here. We are rebooting our YouTube page. So you can check out our link in the show notes. Click on that. Subscribe. This episode is going up there. We put our episode from last week. I'm going to start dropping some takes there. Also, a lot of lifestyle content and learning content like dispatches

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And so I'll talk more about that in the weeks ahead. I'm planning to drop an analysis of the Texas

Senate race in the next two days, how those two candidates are positioning themselves

and what their vulnerabilities and potential strengths and avenues are. But today we're here to

talk about maybe one of the most wasteful, certainly one of the most expensive school districts

in American history. And just last week, Jeff Bezos turned some heads in an interview he gave

with CNBC's Squawk Box.

And there were some things he said in that that I thought were silly or wrong.

But there was one thing in there that I think is worth considering.

He said, if we ran Amazon the way, New York City runs their school system.

Your packages would take six weeks to arrive.

We'd have to charge you $100 delivery fee. And then when the package did finally arrive. We'd have to charge you a $100 delivery fee.

And then when the package did finally arrive, you'd have the wrong item in it anyway.

Now, I get it why nobody wants to be taking lessons from Bezos or any finger wagging,

especially given some of the other things, even said in that interview.

But I want you to listen to this interview that we have

today. And I want you to ask yourself at the end, was Jeff Bezos right about the New York City

school system? And in order to help us grapple with that question, I'm inviting on Mark Novikoff,

who just wrote a very fascinating article for the Atlantic called a mediocre

public school education for just $40,000 of people, how New York City's education budget became

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