Episode summary: Annie Lowrey’s new book, The Time Tax, argues that the most regressive levy in American life is the hours each of us must spend on hold, in waiting rooms, and filling out forms a competent state would have pre-filled — roughly fifty a year on average, and far more if you’re poor. Tyler spends much of this conversation pressing the opposite case, asking whether that bureaucracy is quietly serving a useful purpose by rationing knee surgeries that don’t work, deterring fraud, or screening for immigrants with gumption. So Tyler and Annie hash it out over an hour, covering why TANF and other welfare programs are the worst offenders, the political economy of submerged benefits like the child tax credit, whether the postal service should be zeroed out over ten years the way Denmark did, whether the government should be nudging people out of rural areas, lessons from the COVID unemployment fraud, areas where the time tax is flat instead of regressive, which private sector time taxes are most onerous, whether AI…
Episode summary: Annie Lowrey’s new book, The Time Tax, argues that the most regressive levy in American life is the hours each of us must spend on hold, in waiting rooms, and filling out forms a competent state would have pre-filled — roughly fifty a year on average, and far more if you’re poor. Tyler spends much of this conversation pressing the opposite case, asking whether that bureaucracy is quietly serving a useful purpose by rationing knee surgeries that don’t work, deterring fraud, or screening for immigrants with gumption. So Tyler and Annie hash it out over an hour, covering why TANF and other welfare programs are the worst offenders, the political economy of submerged benefits like the child tax credit, whether the postal service should be zeroed out over ten years the way Denmark did, whether the government should be nudging people out of rural areas, lessons from the COVID unemployment fraud, areas where the time tax is flat instead of regressive, which private sector time taxes are most onerous, whether AI…
| # | Наименование новости | Тональность | Информативность | Дата публикации |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🎧 Lace and Labor | 0 | 9.85 | 25-09-2026 |
| 2 | ★ The Dalrymple Report: tvOS, Robots, Ads in Apple Maps | 0 | 6.67 | 31-10-2025 |
| 3 | Betting on a graveyard of Cybertrucks with Mary Roach | 0 | 8.01 | 01-08-2026 |
| 4 | 👮 Flock Searches for the LOLs | EFFector 38.16 | 0 | 10.6 | 16-09-2026 |
| 5 | ★ The Dalrymple Report: Apple fiscal report, CarPlay, and Gemini | 0 | 8.98 | 07-11-2025 |
| 6 | 📱 Hey Siri, How Do I Limit AI Data Access? | EFFector 38.17 | 0 | 10 | 30-09-2026 |
| 7 | Alles stapelt sich - Wie kommen wir endlich im Haushalt hinterher? | 0 | 9.38 | 07-09-2026 |
| 8 | ★ The Dalrymple Report: Snowstorm, Apple chatbot, Guitar software | 0 | 6.18 | 23-01-2026 |
| 9 | Privacy’s Defenders Podcast: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries | 0 | 8.02 | 29-09-2026 |
| 10 | 🎧 The Philosophy Club: Chesterfield | 0 | 7.77 | 30-09-2026 |