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Even if it means sitting front row
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at a comedy show.
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Oh, no.
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car insurance with Liberty Mutual together. We're married.
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Me to a human, him to a bird. Yeah, the bird looks out of your league anyways.
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Welcome to We Fixed it. You're welcome. The show where we take over companies. You come along for the ride and we try to put them back better than we found them. A lot of us are wired to achieve. Give us a task, we'll crush it. Tell us we can't do something, we'll prove you wrong. Dangle a promotion. We will chase it relentlessly until it's ours. Because of this, we've built an entire economic system where people who stick around shooting show their loyalty and prove their worth. Expect to move up. Bigger salary, more responsibility. Not all of us want these things, but a lot of us do. Recognition, compensation, mobility, fulfillment. So we play the game, and over time, we move up. We get put in charge of others. We earn leadership titles. And once we've climbed the ranks, we don't want to move backward. That's the big problem we're dealing with today. Have we created a system that has too many decision makers and not enough executors? Are there too many managers? And if so, is this a recipe for disaster for our labor market? Are we all doomed? Well, that's a big question. Probably one for a labor economist. Fortunately, we have a great one with us today. Joining us is Ron Hetrick, one of the most respected labor economists in the country and someone who looks at the workforce from a macro level with very real implications for how companies operate and succeed. Ron's the principal economist at Lightcast. They're a big deal. A former Bureau of Labor Statistics economist and a Trusting Advisor to Fortune 100 companies, staffing firms, and policymakers. He's also the author of the Demographic Drought and a report called who's Going to Do the Work? Which feels very appropriate for our conversation today. Ron, it's so great to have you. Tell us just a little bit more about yourself.
