When you have a free market and it's booming, what happens eventually? Because america is building products and services that reach the rest of the globe, we need more workers. So this is creating a labor shortage. Obviously, there's a labor shortage as well because people got stimulus money. There's another issue, a people got rich off nfts. But i don't think that's actually a really big one. I think some people have reconsidered their life choices, and one of those is maybe to live a more modest, low cost life style,. which then, i think, drives more people to the gig economy.
Rapid fire news episode. First, Jason covers how a fire proofed home survived the Caldor fire, Amazon's plan to provide college for all its employees, Facebook copying Snap's glasses, Notion acquiring Automate.io & more. At the end, Jason takes a few questions from listeners and shares a story from when he ran Silicon Alley Reporter.