x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

The Elysian Dispatch

Our systems are collapsing—let"s design what comes next. Join us for audio essays that redesign governance, rethink capitalism, and architect a better future. www.elysian.press

business philosophy

All Episodes

5:31

We need to get rid of weekends

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/11/10

Have you ever tried to get a dinner reservation on a Friday night, go skiing on a Saturday, book a campground on a weekend, or get a flight on a holiday weekend? Or even go to the gym or grocery store after work?If you have, you might be inclined to think that your city is too congested—there are just too many people!—but really, the problem is that we’re all working and recreating at the exact same time.Dinner reservations are usually freely available on a Tuesday, the ski slopes are empty on a

en

7:09

Salary jobs are how we get the 20-hour workweek

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/10/29

David Le was bored at his job, so he got a new one—and never quit the old one.It was just that he was super efficient—he got more done in a 20 hour work week than his coworkers did with 40. “If I can do your job twice as fast,” he thought, “why can’t I do two 20-hour-a-week jobs rather than pretend to work 40 at one?” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.elysian.press/subscribe

en

5:32

We're reinventing the social club—here's our Manifesto

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/10/27

If you’ve joined the Elysian Collective in the last two years, you might not know that I’ve modeled our organization after old social clubs. Specifically, one founded by William Morris in 1890 London. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.elysian.press/subscribe

en

70:33

Democracy could be incredibly efficient

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/10/14

I spoke with Glen Weyl, founder of RadicalXChange, author of Plurality and Radical Markets, and the lead of Microsoft’s Special Projects division where he founded the Plural Technology Collaboratory.Weyl talks a lot about how we can innovate democracy, not just throw it all out in favor of autocracy. In this Guest Lecture, we talk about his recent debate with Curtis Yarvin, whether corporations are autocracies or democracies, whether countries like Singapore are more or less democratic than the US,

en

51:03

How Seattle is taxing exorbitant CEO pay

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/10/08

Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland Oregon are all taxing companies that pay executives excessively.Seattle was the most recent one to do it, taxing companies 5% on everything they pay executives over $1 million, and using the estimated $30 to $80 million in annual revenue to fund social housing.In this guest lecture, Tiffani McCoy shares how they did it. As the co-executive director of House Our Neighbors, she shares how they got the signatures and passed the ballot measure this year—all while

en

9:46

Mark Cuban’s Right—End Exorbitant CEO Pay

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/10/06

Mark Cuban thinks we should end exorbitant pay for executives.“I would create tax incentives for companies that rewarded all of their employees with a pari passu-type ratio of stock rewards to income,” he said on a recent podcast. “If the CEO gets $100,000 worth of stock and makes $1 million, that’s 10%. The person working the front desk who makes $40,000 gets 10%. I think that’s the path to income equality.“You have to increase people’s asset base in order for them to have assets that appreciate

en

11:45

Stop pretending billionaires built the future

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/09/29

America’s billionaires will call anything “socialism”—so long as it keeps them from paying taxes.They parrot the idea that we need billionaires, because it’s the promise of million-dollar payouts that incentivizes them to build the internet, autonomous vehicles, and rockets.Both are untrue, as evidenced by our very own country and our own history. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.elysian.press/subscribe

en

9:14

Ancient Olympians wouldn’t qualify for today’s Games

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/09/23

We can’t deny that technology has pushed the human body far beyond what Greece’s ancient athletes could have achieved. Every person on a podium today got there, not just because they are athletically superior, but because they have been scientifically and technologically optimized to be superior.This, we should recognize, is a new form of progress. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.elysian.press/subscribe

en

13:27

So, America wants a dictator

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/09/09

The allure of the "strongman" is back, and the ideal of a "benevolent dictator" haunts our imagination of the future. But the solution is not to abolish democracy, it’s to innovate it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.elysian.press/subscribe

en

18:25

Ranking every country in the world

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/09/02

I’ve been struggling to follow the news in any way that is productive. It’s too zoomed in on the most dramatic things happening today, without any context of the wider picture and what the trends are actually saying about our countries and the world.So I decided to zoom out and make a report card for the whole world. Something that is a snapshot of how every country is doing in terms of governance and economics, and whether they are trending in a positive or negative direction compared with 10 years

en

21:59

By all means, let private equity save capitalism

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/08/12

KKR is either a villain or a hero, depending on who you ask.The private equity firm started buying up companies, giving employees equity in them, then selling them at a profit with windfall results for employees and KKR. Some employee-ownership advocates see the company as an unlikely savior, offering workers stake in billion-dollar businesses. Others see it as an apex predator of late capitalism, giving workers a watered-down version of “equity” for their own financial gain.Which is it? This is a

en

12:56

We could return three continents of land to the wild

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/07/30

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s four-story art installation shrinks humans to the size of ants and invites us to participate in the natural world as insects do. She wants humans to feel empathy for the natural world—for the insects and animals who live in the ecologies we destroy for our own wellbeing. Maybe we need to. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.elysian.press/subscribe

en

82:47

We need a fourth branch of government

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/07/17

Marjan Ehsassi is the executive director of the Federation for Innovation in Democracy (FIDE) - North America, an international organization working to increase citizen participation in policymaking. On this research call, we discussed her article "We Need a Fourth Branch of Government" about how we can use citizens' assemblies to better democracy, capitalism, and academia. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

en

8:27

No, KKR is not “equity washing”

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/07/10

Katie Boland, co-founder of the Delta Fund, recently wrote an article arguing that KKR isn’t providing employee-ownership, but is “equity washing." A baseline employee ownership deal (known as an ESOP) would be much better, she says. I think it’s a mistake to compare a private equity company like KKR to traditional employee-owned companies—we should compare them to other private equity companies. Is KKR’s model better than what other employee-owned companies are doing? Probably not! Is KKR’s model

en

15:36

How much of the planet should we harm for our comfort?

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/07/09

In Becky Chambers’ beautiful novel and masterpiece, A Psalm for the Wild Built, Sibling Dex is afraid to walk off the path because of the harm they might cause the grass and the creatures that live in it. But they come into contact with a robot who finds this strange. “Every living thing causes damage to others, Sibling Dex. You’d all starve otherwise. Have you ever watched a bull elk mow its way through a bitebulb thicket?"All life causes harm. Shouldn't we, for our own wellbeing? This is a public

en

11:46

Democrats Need a Mamdani-Type to Win

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/06/27

New York City’s mayoral primary has served as a kind of theater for what the future of the Democratic Party should look like in the United States.The story is told through three characters: The Trad Democrat, played by Andrew Cuomo, The Social Democrat, played by Zohran Mamdani, and The Abundance Democrat, played by Zellnor Myrie, Brad Lander, Whitney Tilson, and Adrienne Adams.What kind of Democrat do we want in America? Well, that’s the subject of the show, and you, as the audience member, can

en

14:26

How Silicon Valley got rich

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/05/28

Employee equity programs created a new entrepreneurial class and fostered a generation of employee-owned companies. They also led to rampant inequality.Without Silicon Valley cutting employees in on the deal, all of our economic value could have funneled to the top instead of just nearly all of it. Our task now is to drastically expand what Silicon Valley started: To increase the share of companies owned by working employees and to increase the share of worker equity that goes to non-executive

en

12:01

120 million employee-owners in one generation

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/05/12

If 120 million workers became owners in the companies they work for, the impact on wealth ownership would be seismic. Here's how it could work. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.elysian.press/subscribe

en

13:12

We should create more US states

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/03/27

We should create more US States. A growing separatist movement aims to do just that. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.elysian.press/subscribe

en

17:29

US states should have autonomy—like EU countries

The Elysian Dispatch ·

2025/03/19

What if US states had the same autonomy as EU countries? Theoretically, Vermont could become a social democracy just like Malta—after all, they have the same population size and GDP per capita. California has the same population as Spain and is twice as rich by GDP per capita—they could afford to subsidize childcare, healthcare, and education just like Spain. Despite being our least populous state, Wyoming is richer than Sweden or the Netherlands on a per capita basis—it could establish a sovereign

en

27 results

Similar Podcasts

TaxTalent.com The Golden Rule Podcast

Adam Golden

TaxTalent.com Podcast

Tony Santiago

Handelsblatt Crime - spannende Streitfälle der deutschen Wirtschaft

Ina Karabasz, Solveig Gode, Sönke Iwersen

Deffner und Zschäpitz – Der Wirtschafts-Talk von WELT

WELT

Black Box - La scatola nera della finanza

Guido Brera e Gian Luca Comandini -...