Adam Harris

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1,438 appearances 16 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 2d ago

Adam Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Radio Atlantic · How the Government Wastes Our Time · 7 Sep 2026 podcast
But those long lines of the DMV, I think, are like the most trenchant example of what you call a sort of time tax. voice-verified
So what are time taxes and how do they show up in everyday lives even outside of the DMV? voice-verified
So this is how people sort of interact with the different things, right? voice-verified
So like you said, it's not just the government. voice-verified
It can also be canceling a gym membership. voice-verified
In your new book, The Time Tax, you write about the idea that we see some of the most cumbersome examples of these time taxes as they relate to sort of social safety net programs, right? voice-verified
Food stamps, Medicaid, Social Security, things that people in need of help need to survive. voice-verified
So why is that? voice-verified
Why do we see a structure where the time taxes seem so cumbersome in those social safety net programs? voice-verified
Yeah. voice-verified
And, you know, it's interesting that you mentioned all the paperwork. voice-verified
And that's even if they know that the programs exist to help them. voice-verified
And that doesn't, as you write, right, that's not by accident. voice-verified
Yes. voice-verified
That historically these sort of cumbersome processes have been used as a form of, like, social control that is as old as data itself. voice-verified
So can you explain that idea a little bit, right, that these time taxes aren't something that sort of popped up in the middle of the 1950s and 1960s with an explosion of bureaucracy? voice-verified
You know, during COVID, there were so many programs that were intended to just simply help people who were struggling, right? voice-verified
Additional tax benefits and things like that. voice-verified
A lot of those programs were... voice-verified
very clearly designed so that they reached the most people with the greatest ease. voice-verified
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