Zack Kass
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2,920 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5 Jul
Zack Kass’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But I think for a period of time, it's going to be very hard for people to say, I don't know what I'm going to do for the rest of my career, and that's okay.
I think fracturing the line between a father and a son who has passed not just a job, but a last name that often signified a job itself, which is why Miller and Smith are two of the five most common last names between the United States and Australia.
And also, by the way, a world where the first question adults ask each other is, what do you do?
It's really hard to imagine a world where we are fulfilled without being able to say, this is what I do.
Instead, who am I?
And by the way, the craziest thing about this is people have been talking about this for a while.
And in fact, John Maynard Keynes, who is the father of modern macroeconomics, probably the most important economist of the 20th century,
wrote a paper in 1930 titled The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, in which he writes, and I quote, against a backdrop of abject despair, people dying in the streets.
He goes, no, no, no, no, no, you're missing the point.
Things are getting really good.
And he writes, and I quote, I must now disembarrass myself to take flight into a future that I will certainly not live to see, one in which humans may have solved the economic problem and be faced with something more profound.
the father of modern macroeconomics proposing that at some point we would clothe, care, feed for, house everyone, and then humans would face our greatest struggle yet.
The idea that actually, and my word's not his, we are facing a spiritual reckoning.
We have filled our lives with so much stuff, so much status.
so much abundance of things.
And we're now actually gonna have to peel a bunch of it out to realize that what makes us happiest is time with friends and family and physical community, places of worship and outside or dining room cable.
And that's probably it.
And the trickiest part in all this is going to be that place in between.
And I do not have an answer for this.
I mean, my answer is to talk about it.
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