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Slate Money

The Robopocalypse Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Investing

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week Felix, Emily and Anna discuss the threat of robots taking our jobs, TurboTax and the Vanity Fair piece on Wall Street supposedly making money on the chaos of Trump. And in the Slate Plus segment: D.E. Shaw.    Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello! Welcome to the robot apocalypse edition of Sleep Money,

0:17.5

your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

0:21.0

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm joined by Emily Peck of Huffpost

0:25.2

Hello I am joined by Anna Schramanski of Breaking Views we are going to fight robots on this show we are going to fight robots on this show. We are going to find, identify, and attack the robots

0:40.2

that Erin Burnett was talking about on CNN during the Democratic debate and we're going to work

0:45.4

out whether they are taking our jobs.

0:48.7

My job as host of slate money is not going to be replaced by a robot but yours if you're in

0:53.0

manufacturing maybe it will be we will talk about that we are going to talk

0:56.6

about little baby robots called e-minis and whether they are being

1:01.1

controlled evilly by Donald and whether they are being controlled

1:03.8

evily by Donald Trump.

1:06.6

That's an amazing story which is probably absolutely nothing.

1:10.5

spoiler alert.

1:11.4

We're going to talk about the robots that do your taxes and why they

1:15.2

are so expensive and why they can't be free and invisible. Because I like the idea of a free

1:19.5

invisible robot doing my tax, and I have a suggestion at the end of that segment for exactly

1:26.0

who should be building the free and invisible robot to do our taxes and I like my

1:30.4

suggestion and I think it should be adopted, Jeff Baysos if you're listening.

1:35.8

We have a slight plus about D.E. Shore becoming an activist investor, which is like a very, D. Shore

1:41.8

is a robot basically, but he's becoming an emotional

1:44.3

investor so that's interesting we have a packed episode this week so all of that coming

1:49.0

up on slate money let's start with robots.

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