Kai Ryssdal

And, you know, it's like Cormac McCarthy novel The Road to get people to say we should have had a V8 and had a secretary of the future.

You know, do you have faith in humanity or not?

You asked earlier, you know, what gives you optimism?

And and I would have had a similar answer.

It's social capital like this.

On a good Sunday where it's beautiful outside and you have mountains and oceans beckoning, you're here to chew on some topics about the economy.

That gives me some hope.

I also know that pendulums swing.

I also talk to a lot of younger adults in my line of work, and also we have three younger adults who are offspring.

And they are not uniformly upbeat at all times about the state of the world.

But they also are preparing themselves for a time when the time horizon is longer than it seems to be now.

And our job isn't to tell you what the choices should be.

Our job...

is to show you the range of policy possibilities, the ways people are thinking about this.

One of the first projects under this new aegis that we're really excited about, haven't done the reporting on this yet, just some basic research, it might be called Robots Ate My Taxes.

You have to know he's done two series before, right?

Robots Ate My Job and what was the other one?

Robot Proof Jobs or something like that.

That was about technological unemployment before we talked about large language models.

But Robots Ate My Taxes, you know how you and I, how many stories have you and I done about the demographic challenges, right?