The Robot Apocalypse Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of the upcoming, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Ryan Avent, author of The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century discuss how jobs are changing in the robot economy, Wells Fargo’s unnecessary banking products, and shifty Amazon pricing algorithms. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -Ryan Avent discusses his take on how work might change in the future, a topic explored in his book The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century -The pressure Wells Fargo put on bank tellers to sign customers up for products they weren’t interested in -Bias in Amazon’s pricing algorithm Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann Production by Mickey Capper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello! Hello and welcome to the robot apocalypse edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business
0:51.6	and finance news of the century.
0:55.0	We are zooming out this week and well, let me just tell you this is going to be a good one because not only do we have Kathy O'Neill,
1:07.0	the author of Weapons of Math Destruction, the greatest book ever written.
1:12.0	Hello, everyone.
1:13.6	But we are also standing in for the randomly flaky Jordan Weisman.
1:19.8	We have a much better finance blogger. So true fact I I kind of sort of like opened up a job for Ryan Avent once. Kind of.
1:33.3	Kind of.
1:34.3	I moved from portfolio.com to Reuters.com, and in doing so opened up a finance blogger
1:41.5	position at portfolio.com, which filled by Mr Ryanavant for how long?
1:46.8	Two weeks. All of two weeks.
1:49.8	It was not the most awesome of bequest.
1:53.2	It was a good experience.
1:55.0	It was a learning experience.
1:56.6	Yeah, basically two weeks after I left,
2:00.0	they took a look around, realized that without me there was no future and shut the entire thing down.
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