We Can Work It Out

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Heroic wonksplainer Scott Lincicome is back on the Remnant to discuss his new book, Empowering the American Worker: Market‐Based Solutions for Today’s Workforce, which examines what effective pro-worker policies should look like in today’s political climate. Predictably, things get nerdy, as the conversation explores education policy, the demands of urban living, and the great vampire-werewolf debate (tune in for clarification). Where is the government going wrong in its approach to the workforce? Can relying on the free market ever create problems? And how bullish should we be about remote work?

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0:00.0	On am!
0:08.5	Well, that is gentleman there!
0:18.0	Could I please have your attention?
0:21.2	Alo-jiggy!
0:28.6	Greetings here.
0:29.6	were host to the remnant podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media.
0:33.9	Today, we're very excited and I don't mean that just simply in the royal we to have
0:41.5	longtime fan favorite of this podcast, heroic wonk splainer.
0:48.8	And my colleague and author of the capitalism newsletter, also some sort of lawyer, Cato
0:57.1	scholar guy and all that kind of stuff.
1:00.4	Scott Linscomb and he's got a new book out called Empowering the New American Worker,
1:05.6	Market-based Solutions for today's workforce.
1:09.5	Now normally I like to ask authors a simple question of what's your book about, but you
1:15.4	kind of have it in the title.
1:17.2	If I can throw you just something out of left field really quick, where do you come
1:23.1	down on this whole werewolves versus vampires?
1:26.1	Wow.
1:27.1	Well, that's not covered in the book, although I had some vocations of a story.
1:33.9	Well, I was going to say, there are workers and consumers too, so I definitely vampire.
1:41.4	All right.
1:42.4	So, so you can sit there in your wrongness and we can come back to that.
1:46.4	So, that said, what would you sort of start from the top?
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