Techdirt Podcast Episode 131: Is The Economy More Important Than Democracy?
from the or-vice-versa dept
The economy is important — very important. But is that because it matters in and of itself, or because it's the engine for achieving the things we really do care about? Here at Techdirt we've always been strong advocates of the free market, but we've never been absolutists about things like regulation, and we believe it's very important to explore these issues in detail. This week on the podcast we're joined by James Allworth, co-host of the Exponent podcast and author of a recent post entitled Prioritizing Economics is Crippling the U.S. Economy, to discuss entrepreneurship, democracy, the economy and more.
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Its almost all good
You explicitly asked for feedback, so here is mine.
Firstly, I've listened to almost every episode for
over a year. I dont subscribe, because your third
party distributors dont need to know that I am interested,
and I know your publishing schedule.
Needless to say, I am a fan :)
>> Its about the ideas + guest interplay
Your best podcasts involve you as host and one guest
exploring some idea.
Conversely, your worst are yourself + "the usual cohort"
wobbling on about whatever. Its not always bad.
Sometimes interesting interaction ensues. However episode
130 was a nadir with people shouting over each other
and little substantive interaction on what was a
potentially very interesting topic. I note that my
critical feedback was not approved (which is fine;
your site, you get to curate feedback).
Keep it up, and best of luck with the Anti-SLAPP crap.
/Hugo
PS: Note that the redirect links from you RSS feed terminate download about half way through the download (this week) independently of whether I'm using Tor (my preference) or "all network intermediaries can watch everything" (http).
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Dammit ; comment addendum
There, in one sentence, is the holding of two seemingly contradictory ideas showing how they support each other.
An episode, rich with *nuance*.
Nice, Hugo
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