Episode Details

Mike talks with E. Glen Weyl, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York City, about his recent book with Eric Posner, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society.

Mike and Glen discuss:

• why private property is a form of inefficient monopoly and how to fix it
• the problem with ‘one person, one vote’ and a proposed alternative
• a radical alternative to our current immigration system
• how big institutional investors discourage innovation and growth
• the massive amount of unpaid labor we willingly provide to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other Big Tech companies

- Google’s The Selfish Ledger (YouTube)

- Glen Weyl on Twitter

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