Greg Rosalski
speaker
658 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Jul
Greg Rosalski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A concept that could keep some labor economists up at night.
A concept that...
We are actively avoiding saying... Because, yeah, we wanted Aaron to say it.
Yeah, he says it well.
Would you say that the thing we have not yet said is scarier or less scary than the xenomorph, the alien?
You know, in eighth grade, not so much.
But today...
Yeah, you know, like xenomorphs are not great, but monopsony... Ah, monopsony!
Oh, monopsony, it's coming to get me!
It bursted out of Kenny's chest, help us!
Well, I will say we are bursting with enthusiasm to talk about monopsony, yes, because...
Planet Money Stans will know that we love talking monopsony when we can.
So, of course, monopoly is where there's one big company selling in a market.
Monopsony is when there is one company buying in a market.
And, you know, the version we probably hear most often is about one company buying labor, hiring people.
So only one company that people can go work for.
And it
It certainly seems as if the corporation Weyland-Yutani is operating with the power of a monopsony in the dystopian sci-fi future of Alien.
Now, obviously, this is a crazy, fantastical world far off in space with aliens and xenomorphs and whatever.
But these sort of all-powerful monopsonies have existed in the real world, like mining towns that were owned and run by one company.
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