The Live Long and Prosper Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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On this episode of Slate Money, author of the upcoming book Trekonomics, Manu Saadia, joins host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann to discuss: •How the universe of Star Trek functions without money?•If we can we ever reach a post-scarcity society?•Just what Google is up to with their new umbrella company Alphabet? Slate Money is sponsored by Volvo. Experience the Wonder of Summer. Have a month's payment on Volvo and spend your summer doing the things that matter to you. Plus, get up to five years full coverage, including wear and tear. Go to volvocars.com/us. And by Zip Recruiter. With Zip Recruiter you can post your job to over 100 job sites with a single click, and an interface that's easy to use. Right now, you can try Zip Recruiter for free. Go to ziprecruter.com/slatemoney. And by Credit Karma. Don't pay for your credit score. With Credit Karma, you can see your credit score right now absolutely free. Just text the word M-O-N-E-Y to 89800 to download the free Credit Karma app and get started.
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| 0:00.0 | Slate Money is sponsored by Volvo. |
| 0:02.7 | Experience the wonder of summer, have a month's payment on Volvo, and spend your summer doing the things that matter to you. |
| 0:08.6 | Plus, get up to five years full coverage, including wear and tear. |
| 0:12.3 | Go to VolvoCars.com slash U.S. |
| 0:15.7 | And by ZipRecruiter. |
| 0:17.4 | With ZipRecruiter, you can post your job to over 100 job sites with a single click |
| 0:22.1 | and an interface that's easy to use. Right now, you can try ZipRecruiter for free. Go to ZipRecruiter.com |
| 0:28.2 | slash Slate Money. That's ZipRecruiter.com slash slate money. And buy credit karma. Don't pay for |
| 0:35.4 | your credit score. With Credit Karma, you can see your credit score right now absolutely free. Just text the word money to 89800 to download the free Credit Karma app and get started. Again, text the word money to 89800. |
| 1:07.8 | Hello and welcome to the live long and prosper edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 1:09.8 | You're going to like this one. |
| 1:14.2 | I'm Felix Salmon & Fusion. I'm joined as always by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and the blogger at mathbabe.org. I just want to say I love |
| 1:19.7 | Star Trek. I just, I have to start out that way. It's a confession. And I should say a serious |
| 1:26.2 | trekker. I'm also joined by a man who is what never seen Star Trek in his life. |
| 1:30.9 | I've never watched a full episode of Star Trek. |
| 1:33.8 | I think I might have seen one of the movies years ago when I was a kid. |
| 1:38.9 | I have a vague recollection of that. |
| 1:40.2 | Ladies and gentlemen, Jordan Weissman, the last person you ever want to talk to about popular culture. |
| 1:46.7 | And much, much more interestingly and excitingly, we have the one and only Manu Sardier. |
| 1:54.9 | Hi. |
| 1:55.8 | Manu has a book out. |
| 1:57.8 | Well, it's not quite out, but it's in sort of crowdfunding mode right now. |
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