This chapter features an intriguing advertisement for Boost Mobile followed by a discussion on various current events. Key topics include challenges faced by online dating platforms, the historic addition of breakdancing in the Olympics, and an analysis of the recent riots in Britain linked to racism and immigration issues.
The rich world is experiencing record migrant flows—and the attendant social upheaval. Finding immigration policies that are not economically ruinous is damnably hard. Our three-part series starts to unpack why people are so fed up with the big dating apps (11:10). And the head-spinning history of how break(danc)ing became an Olympic sport (18:44).
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