George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hospitality, construction, but also medicine and also tech.
Because it turns out that with our declining population, our aging and declining population, and with sectors of the country that are in decline being where there's the fewest immigrants…
Immigration turns out to be part of what makes America prosperous.
But that's something that David Sachs probably knew all his life until he stopped knowing it around the time that he began to get close to Trump and MAGA.
Because it's important, Terry.
It's hugely important.
And even if I'm not the world's best expert, I do have a nose for crypto.
politics and power and where power flows and where it's flowing in a way that just doesn't seem quite right.
And it just began to seem inescapable to me that with Trump's return,
power like we maybe have never seen and wealth like we maybe have never seen was flowing into the hands of a few people who had aligned themselves with Trump.
And one thing I do know something about is democracy.
I care about it.
And that concentration of power and money is the enemy of democracy.
And we've seen this over and over in our history.
We saw it at the beginning of the 20th century with the robber barons in the Gilded Age.
And that's why
Decades of reform and legislation from the progressive era to the New Deal changed American politics because ordinary people saw that the deck was stacked against them and that democracy itself was under threat, not just economic inequality but the concentration of power in a few hands of people who could then –
arrange politics and policy to their benefit.
That's happening again.
It's happening right in front of us.
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