Episode 1941
Nov 10
They’re selling a social class. They’re selling the achievements of that class. They’re telling you why these people who dominate us as never before…and inequality is worse than it’s ever been since they started measuring it. Why is that OK? Because those people are ‘innovators.’
Thomas Frank returns to discuss his new book, The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America's Biggest Racket, available now from Penguin.
"Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
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