The Meritocracy Trap
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to the Meritocracy Trap edition of Slate Money, Your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:23.3 | I am joined by Emily Peck of Huffpost. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello. |
| 0:27.2 | I have been informed by Emily's boss that it is no longer the Huffington Post. |
| 0:31.8 | It is now just Huff |
| 0:32.6 | I've always meant to tell you that but then I figure everyone knows it is |
| 0:35.7 | Huffington Post so I just go with it anyway. It is Huff Post and most excitingly we |
| 0:41.9 | have in the studio, Daniel Markovitz of Yale Law School. |
| 0:47.0 | Hi. |
| 0:48.0 | You came to fame. |
| 0:49.0 | When was your commencement speech? |
| 0:51.0 | Four years ago, maybe? |
| 0:52.0 | Four years ago.? Four years ago. |
| 0:53.0 | 2015. |
| 0:54.0 | There you go. |
| 0:55.0 | This is honestly the only commencement speech that everyone should read and or listen to. |
| 1:01.0 | It's fantastic and you have basically turned it into a book which is called |
| 1:05.8 | the meritocracy trap and like all non-fiction books in America it needs some long |
| 1:11.6 | subtitle which says everything that's in the book, right? |
| 1:14.7 | Yes, it says everything that's in the book. |
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