Seth Paskin
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1,271 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
Seth Paskin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So in that sense, again, I think it's pretty obvious.
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I'm a plastic constitution person.
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And so I think that that means that in the event that we have changing circumstances such that we have to
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adapt to them and they're real, we need to be making revisions to law first, and then if necessary, to constitution to account for them.
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And this is something that, I don't know, it's not American government, I think just government in general.
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It is a problem that our technology, and I think our technology feeds our economics, goes faster than our ability to address it.
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And I don't know exactly what to do about that problem.
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One thing might be to just decrease the average age of the Senate to...
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You reminded me, and Russell's question reminded me of this too, is that it's not explicit in certainly what we read, and I just don't remember if it's explicit more in the Federalist Papers, but there is a capitalist founding of the country as well.
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It's not just the Constitution.
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There's an enablement, and Hamilton was a partisan of this.
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There was the generation of the Treasury and the bank and stuff like that, things that were the economic engine that was to be America went right along with
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the federal constitutional engine that was to be america and part of the declaration was saying we want to be our own engine and part of that was economic as well as i'll call it political i do think that the terms of how that economic engine works is in a kind of strain of influence
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I'm not enough of a historian to know the parallels exactly and the distinctions between the late 1800s and the robber baron age and stuff like that.
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But there's something like that that's going on.
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And I don't know exactly what it is.
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But we have not figured out what the laws were.
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I mean, the response to that was to break up Standard Oil and to break up monopolies and stuff like that.
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We have individuals that have more money than those companies ever did right now.
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And we haven't figured out how to deal with it.
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