Adam Harris
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16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 2d ago
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Until next time, I'm Adam Harris.
This is Radio Atlantic.
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I'm Adam Harris.
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And today we need to think about all of the ways that the government wastes our time.
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I'm only half joking.
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If you've ever thought to yourself while filling out your taxes or trying to cancel a gym membership that this is taking too long, don't they already have all this information?
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Or there has to be a better way.
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You're not alone.
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My colleague Annie Lowry has a name for these cumbersome processes.
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She calls them time taxes.
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She wrote about the phenomenon for the Atlantic in 2021.
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And in her new book, The Time Tax, How the Government Wastes Our Time and How to Fix It, she explores how and why our time is squandered when it does not have to be.
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So what gets lost in all of the hours spent filing paperwork?
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And how do we fix it?
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Annie joins me now to discuss.
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Annie, welcome to the show.
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So I want to start by talking about the DMV.
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Yeah.
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Because, right, it's Labor Day, government offices are closed, but tomorrow across the country, DMVs are going to be full of people trying to renew their car registrations, get real IDs, change their addresses, change their names, whatever it might be.
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