Bigfoot vs. the Health Insurance Beast: Why America Still Doesn't Have Universal Healthcare
Bigfoot vs. the Health Insurance Beast: Why America Still Doesn't Have Universal Healthcare Dave Pederson talks with Wendell Potter, former Cigna vice president of corporate communications turned heal...
26 Elo 54min
The Union-Busting Industrial Complex: Pinkertons With PowerPoint
When workers start organizing, corporations rarely improvise. They call in the professionals. In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson talks with Professor John Logan, Professor and Pro...
18 Elo 1h 29min
Bigfoot vs. the Child Care Desert: Why Raising a Family Became a Luxury
Parents pay more than they can afford. Child-care educators earn less than they can live on. Providers still struggle to remain open. How can all three be true? Dave Pederson talks with nationally rec...
6 Elo 1h 2min
Fund the Cryptid: Universal Basic Income and the Right to Say No
Universal basic income is usually presented as an anti-poverty program. Scott Santens argues that it is also a foundation for freedom—the ability to refuse an abusive job, leave a dangerous situation,...
29 Heinä 1h 5min
Markets Built for Humans: Nick Hanauer on Why Trickle-Down Broke America
Nick Hanauer joins The Bigfoot Manifesto for a conversation about Markets Built for Humans, his new co-authored work with Eric Beinhocker, and why America needs to abandon trickle-down economics once ...
14 Heinä 1h 3min
Bigfoot vs. the Server Farm: Who Pays for the AI Boom?
Everybody says AI lives in "the cloud." But the cloud is not weightless. In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave talks with Danny Caine of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance about the data c...
7 Heinä 54min
Bigfoot vs. The Union-Busting Machine
The real monster isn't hiding in the warehouse. It's in the scanner, the algorithm, the productivity metric, the union-busting meeting, the legal delay, and the idea that workers should be grateful ju...
18 Kesä 43min
