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Ezra Klein: belief

29 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Ezra Klein on Why We're Polarized

“I think you are dealing with something there at 10,000 people that is a lot more like how a corporation is governed.”

— Ezra Klein

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Speaker
Ezra Klein
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
29 Jan 2020
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Ten thousand people. Ten thousand. Oh, I think you want to deal with something . . . Let me think about how to answer this. I almost wouldn’t think about that as a form of government in the sense that America or even New Zealand has a form of government, with 10,000 people. I think you are dealing with something there at 10,000 people that is a lot more like how a corporation is governed. You’d want it to be democratic, so maybe it’s more like how a co-op is governed. Why democratic? Cruise ships can have thousands of people — maybe not 10,000 — and those are run in a dictatorial but somewhat market-friendly way.…

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