Robert Guest
speaker
122 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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If AI really upends the world of work and you find that a small group of people who own shares in AI companies become very rich and other people are thrown on the scrap heap, the government does have the capacity to redistribute the gains of AI if they are large.
And both Bernie Sanders
On the left and Donald Trump on the right, saying, you know what, the public should have a big stake, a large amount of the shares in the top AI companies so that they reap some of the rewards.
Now, that doesn't answer the more philosophical question of if AI makes lots of work unnecessary, how will people find meaning in their lives?
Again, this is speculative.
We don't know whether this is going to happen, but this is the sort
thing that troubles people a lot.
But I suspect that this is going to be a big issue coming into the midterm elections in November, and that the party that comes up with the more convincing way of articulating people's concerns about it is likely to do better.
Thank you, Rosie.
When it comes to making a show of manliness, a few politicians can match Donald Trump.
Robert Guest is a deputy editor of The Economist.
One day he's swaggering into a cage fighting stadium to the tune of Kid Rock's American Badass.
Another day he's shrugging off a third attempt on his life, with the observation that only the most impactful politicians attract would be assassins.
Voters have long thought of Republicans as the daddy party, tough on defense, tough on security.
And the Democrats as more maternal, looking after poor people, fussing about, nasty words, that kind of thing.
Asked which party is more the party of men, Americans tell pollsters that they're almost seven times likelier to say that it's Republicans than Democrats.
And Trump supercharged that with his appeals to the masculine id.
In fact, there was one incredible poll that said that a large proportion of men actually felt more masculine after voting for him.
But his allure seems to be fading for men and particularly for young men.
In his three runs for the presidency, Trump has always won the male vote and always won overall when his opponent was a woman.
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