Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas
Planet Money
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4.6 • 29.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
First, what if we ban left turns on roads? Then, what if we gave every new baby ... a trust fund? And lastly, what if we completely got rid of U.S. congressional districts?
That's all on today's episode.
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| 0:22.0 | So economists have big ideas, right? |
| 0:25.0 | Ideas that they think would improve the economy, |
| 0:29.0 | improve efficiency, improve our lives. |
| 0:32.0 | And sometimes their ideas are a little out there, but they are. improve our lives. |
| 0:32.8 | And sometimes their ideas are a little out there, but they are convinced that they would |
| 0:36.3 | improve the world if only people would hear them out. |
| 0:40.8 | So today we hear them out. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello and welcome to Planet Money, I'm Sarah Gonzalez. |
| 0:47.0 | We have three big ideas from economists and an engineer for your consideration. |
| 0:52.0 | The ideas are, we ban left turns on the road. No |
| 0:55.8 | one can make left turns anymore. We give people basically Social Security but |
| 1:00.5 | not just at the end of their life at birth for them to use the minute they |
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