Zolan Kano-Youngs
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936 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Sep
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Those workers are shopping in the retail stores in the area, right?
They're sending their kids to the schools in that area.
They're eating at the restaurants in that area.
All of those industries get hit as well when we get this kind of concentrated shock.
You can't even move out of the area because who are you going to sell your house to?
That's right.
Why would I want to buy that home if I'm going to an area where the main industry that the community relies on has collapsed?
That's exactly right.
And so we see this in Hickory, but we see this in communities all across the country that has these really powerful impacts and these lasting scars.
And Ben, I think we've reported on sort of either sides of this, right?
The stakes of this moment are really severe.
We're not just talking about economic impact.
We are also talking about communities that had addiction levels rise, rooted in that unemployment problem.
This brings us to the opioid epidemic.
We're talking about also an impact on our political system as well, the grievance-filled politics that we have seen with a certain forgotten America before.
rooted in this idea that these communities that relied on these certain industries found themselves without work because of this major disruption.
Yeah, and that was something that was happening in a relatively small industry in a relative handful of parts of the country.
Think about what this could look like if it's something that is playing out across a much broader swath of our economy.
Right.
So that's the scary version of how this AI thing could go down.
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