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Mar 2019
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The Occupy French Starbucks Edition

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On this week’s episode, Rob Cox from Breakingviews joins Emily, Felix, and Anna to discuss Teslas finally being cheaper, Kraft & 3G, Facebook’s Content Moderation Failures, and the political scene in France.

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CNN:Tesla debuts long-awaited $35,000 Model 3

The Verge: The Trauma FloorVanity Fair: Men are Scum: Inside Facebook’s War on Hate Speech

The Atlantic: Workism Is Making Americans Miserable

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In the Slate Plus segment: is work the new religion?

Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck, @rob1cox

Podcast production by Max Jacobs.

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