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99% Perspiration: Adam Chandler on Americans and Work

99% Perspiration: Adam Chandler on Americans and Work

The Politics Guys

April 2, 202558m 19s

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Show Notes

Mike talks with Adam Chandler, a former staff writer at The Atlantic whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and a bunch of other places. They discuss his recently released book, 99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life.


Topics Mike & Adam discuss include:

- the “American Abracadabra”

- Columbus, the Puritans, and Ben Franklin

- if the United States is still the “Land of Opportunity”

- the downside of hustle culture

- universal basic income

- how workplace culture has changed over time

- what we might learn from the French about work

- the economic costs of a more laid-back approach to work

- work and a New Patriotism


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