Slate Money - The Edit Button
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🗓️ 9 April 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon and Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers talk about Elon Musk taking a board seat on Twitter, a Staten Island Amazon warehouse’s successful unionization, and whether individuals sending money to Ukraine is helpful.
In the Plus segment: Felix is bad at hotdesking.
Mentioned In the Show:
“Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld
“Worker-to-Worker Organizing May Finally Have Its Moment” by Steven Greenhouse
“Jamie Dimon to Work-From-Homers: You Win” by Holden Walter-Warner
“Amazon Workers’ Union Victory is Turbocharging a New Labor Movement” by Emily Peck
“How Governments Are Multiplying Aid to Ukraine” by Felix Salmon
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the edit button episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance |
| 0:19.2 | news of the week. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm joined from the Axios office. |
| 0:24.5 | Well, I'm in the Axios office, but my colleague, Emily Peck, you're still at home. |
| 0:29.8 | Yes, hello. |
| 0:31.0 | And we are both joined by Elizabeth Spires. |
| 0:34.2 | Elizabeth, welcome. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:36.9 | Tell me about your various affiliations, because we have some heartbreaking news here. |
| 0:44.2 | Well, here at Slate, I write the Patert column, which is a column about the ethics of money and personal finance. |
| 0:51.3 | But you're now adding another arrow to your quiver. Is that another string to |
| 0:56.8 | your bow? Yes. I am now a co-host on Slate Money. Wait, what? Very exciting. They didn't tell you. |
| 1:06.3 | Well done. This is great. Now, this is awesome because now I have two people who love to tell me that I'm wrong about everything, which is how we like it here on this show. And we're going to talk about Elon, the man who wants an edit button and looks like he might be getting it and who owns a chunk of Twitter. That happened this week. So we're going to talk about that. We are going to talk about Amazon being unionized for the first time ever right here in New York City, exciting stuff. |
| 1:34.3 | And we are going to talk about Ukraine and whether and how giving money to Ukraine may or may not be a good idea. |
| 1:41.8 | We also have a slight plus Plus segment on hot-desking |
| 1:47.0 | and whether that ever works. And spoiler alert, I'm very bad at it. It's all coming up |
| 1:53.3 | on Slate Money. Okay, we have to talk about Elon because Elon Musk not satisfied with being the Tesla electric |
| 2:05.5 | vehicle gazillionaire and the solar power gazillionaire and the boring tunnels |
| 2:13.7 | gazillionaire and the space flight gazillionaire and the satellite gazillionaire and all the |
| 2:19.6 | rest of it and the sort of you know occasional met party grimes arms candy is now on the board |
| 2:30.3 | of twitter the single largest shareholder of twitter teaming up seemingly with jack torsie the founder of Twitter, the single largest shareholder of Twitter, teaming up seemingly with Jack |
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