Oren Cass
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818 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3 Jun
Oren Cass’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like we probably need to make it a rule that as you build these massive – If you're eight years old, you shouldn't be in a factory necessarily.
Right.
Maybe that also.
Like maybe this will work better if one of the constraints we impose is if you want to make a lot of money building big factories, you also have to use adult workers and treat them reasonably.
Right.
That will work and then in fact, people started doing that and you had what I would call the much more beneficial industrial revolution that led to huge productivity gains, ultimately the creation of the middle class.
You had the same thing at the end of the 19th century with the giant trusts, right?
Rockefeller and so forth and railroads and utilities.
People are saying like, oh, like I could make a lot of money if I just monopolize this thing.
Yeah.
Well, that's a fair point.
And that's when Teddy Roosevelt shows up and says like, well, OK.
Teddy Roosevelt, Republican.
But this is not – this system does not work.
We actually are going to have to do trust busting.
And so I think you sort of go through these cycles where – then what happened in the second half of the 20th century –
You have the financialization and I think globalization are sort of parallel.
A lot of people said, wow, and obviously we pursued free trade.
We deregulated financial markets.
And people said, well, this is great.
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