Zanny Minton Beddoes

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654 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · An interview with Elon Musk · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

to the people who are losing their jobs?

Do you need to have do you need to pay more tax?

Do you have much h higher taxes on capital so that you fund what some kind of universal income?

Otherwise what do people live off?

where's the revenue coming from?

I mean I'm enough of an economist.

If you just issue checks, you're gonna have inflation.

I'm actually I'm perfectly willing to believe that.

You may well be right.

Yeah, no, no, you absolutely you may well be right.

But I'm really hung up on how we get from the current polarized, angry, fearful

policy we have now to this nirvana.

And and I think you could you can paint a picture where people are so scared by this, you know, they essentially try to stop it.

Maybe they can't, but you get nationalized, there's a kind of, you know, far-left government, uh, there's exorbitant tax increases, the kind of economy crumbles because people are so worried about a future, which does sound quite scary as you describe it.

So how do you how do you handle the politics

Six nine.

It's

I think we agree on that.

I guess I'm trying to be more smallbore and practical and think about what can be done now to limit those risks.

And you gave a very strong argument for what you and and your fellow model makers could do.

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