Jasmine Sun
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1,088 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Jasmine Sun’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a hard and a big question, but I'm asking the same one.
It seems to me that there has to be some kind of grand bargain.
I mean, I think that the original New Deal and rewriting of the social contract with the introduction of workweek regulations, minimum wage, union bargaining power was that.
When I was having a conversation with a friend earlier about how come during the 20th century, the United States experienced a ton of mechanization and automation.
And some people's jobs were displaced in that process, but you didn't see mass political violence.
You didn't see a Luddite style backlash.
And there are different theories for why this is true.
But one of the strongest theories is that in the 20th century, automation mostly affected factories that had strong unions that basically sat down at the union bargaining table and worked with the automators to figure out, okay, we're going to have wage guarantees for the people who keep their jobs.
We want workers' wages to go up if productivity goes up.
So like let's tie workers' wages to productivity gains.
And also you had like the expansion of federal level welfare.
in order to sort of, again, reassure people that the jobs would be better jobs, that they would be taken care of, that they would share in the gains.
I think most people want to live in a growing economy.
Most people want to be more productive.
They just want to know that they are going to get a piece of that.
And if their company ends up making more money because technology increases productivity, they want to get an equal or like some part of that as well.
And I think that's the part that's broken.
I don't know that today unions are the right people to be doing that bargaining.
One is like, it's not, we're not affecting unionized industries anymore.
We're talking about software engineers and marketers and whatever.
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