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Thanksgiving Prep: An Optimist’s Guide to Dinner Table Debate

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Your drunk uncle calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme. Your crypto-bro cousin thinks tariffs make China pay. Your grandfather blames working women for tanking wage growth. Economist Kathryn Edwards takes on a dozen hostile dinner-table challenges to help optimists everywhere prepare for dinner table debate. Robin plays every annoying relative you've ever argued with. Pass the #@(<$^¢ gravy.

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Chapters

1. Announcements (00:00:44)

2. Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme (00:02:43)

3. Social Security is going bankrupt (00:04:15)

4. Not Enough Retirees for Social Security (00:06:09)

5. Why am I subsidizing other people's laziness? (00:08:38)

6. I don't want to pay for someone else's kids (00:12:11)

7. China is actually paying the tariffs (00:16:40)

8. Immigrants take Americans' jobs (00:20:09)

9. Women are the reason wages are low (00:25:20)

10. Trans women shouldn't play college sports (00:29:23)

11. Rich people already pay enough in taxes (00:36:13)

12. The BLS is cooking the books (00:40:22)

13. Universities are indoctrination camps (00:43:23)

14. Credits (00:48:58)

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