Zack Kass
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2,920 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5 Jul
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Now, central planning has all sorts of consequences, some bad, some good.
But one of them is that the party can basically mandate how technology gets deployed.
And the real interesting thing about this moment is
is that we sort of are living in a world of a tale of two cities.
In some parts of the world, we observe that technology has not actually been able to deflate the cost of housing, healthcare, education, legal services.
And the reason for that, it turns out, is not a technological failure, it's a policy failure.
All of the things in your office were prohibitively expensive to you 20 years ago.
That microphone, the lighting systems, the computers on which we operate.
Yeah.
And we observed that most things in our life have actually become exceptionally cheap.
Food, you know, we will eat food that our grandparents had never even heard of.
We will travel to places that our parents couldn't have dreamed of.
And yet, despite all of that deflation across what feels like discretionary spending, the pillars of a great society, housing, healthcare, and education have become more expensive, about 300 to 400% more expensive in the developed world over the last 25 years.
And then the question is actually why?
And the answer rests in a policy failure, not a technology one.
And there are a lot of reasons for this that I can go into, and I won't go on my political diatribe right now, but the kids have figured out that they can drive across Los Angeles for $15 in an autonomous vehicle, but a trip five blocks away in an ambulance might actually bankrupt them.
They figured out they can study Khan Academy for $2,000 a year, but the same classes down the road
at a college, at a private college, will actually put them into crippling debt for the next years.
We have a moment in time right now to right the wrongs because for the last 30 years, we have actually disrupted what became a very proud tradition for the prior 700.
Every generation could pass their goods and services to the next generation, their luxuries to the next generation as commodities, and our ruling classes broke the promise.
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