I'm Nick Hanauer. As someone who's been in and around corporate boardrooms, my entire career,

there's nothing I know better than the extent to which many of my business colleagues will go

to lie to protect their power and profits. And in my new book, Corporate Bullshit,

co-authored with Joan Walsh and Don Cohen, we make this manipulative duplicity plain as day

by placing egregious past quotes from corporate executives next to the equally outrageous

contemporary quotes, all of which justify outcomes that lie in pockets while harming society.

Again, the book is called Corporate Bullshit and you can pre-order the book now wherever books

are sold. If you're a longtime listener of Pitchfork Economics, you've probably heard us tell you

that the golden rule of middle-out economics is that the more people you include in the economy,

the faster and more prosperous it grows. For everybody, and so to drive that point

home yet once again, we thought we'd re-air our conversation with John A. Powell,

the director of the Othering and Belonging Institute, about why Belonging is so important for a

healthy community and why inclusion is the key to a thriving economy. Enjoy.

Legislatures around the country and the Supreme Court are making participation harder, not

easier. Participation in not just in the economy, but in democracy. But in the democracy,

right. You're saying a process of othering, devaluing human beings, and the solution to it is

inclusion is it's kind of something that happens to you like you can be included. Yeah,

whereas Belonging is something that we do together.

From the home offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle, this is Pitchfork Economics,

with Nick Hanauer, the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.

Contrary to what you may have learned in your Econ 101 textbook,

we believe that diversity and inclusion are actually primary drivers of economic growth and

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