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Brian and Derek have the pleasure of sitting down with author, podcast host and founder of the Bahnsen Group, David Bahnsen, to discuss millennials’ attitudes towards work and retirement, the myth of “work/life balance,” the truth behind ESG investing, and much more.
0:23 Hot Take: Willie Nelson taking his Fourth of July Picnic to Jersey?
3:14 Overview of David’s new book: “Full Time: Work and the Meaning of Life”
4:03 The Myth of “work/life balance”
7:45 The importance of faith and work… and how God created us to work
10:45 The connection of work and life’s purpose
11:50 The too-typical millennial mindset towards retirement
14:45 “The New Right” and their Marxist attitudes towards work
18:50 State intervention on the labor force (including minimum wage)
23:40 Trends towards or away from family growth and development vs. career growth and development
27:00 ESG investing
33:30 Are activists intentionally trying to take down Texas oil companies?
35:44 Texas’ Permanent School Fund recently divested $8.5 billion from BlackRock over ESG investing
38:52 What can the average person do?
0:23 Hot Take: Willie Nelson taking his Fourth of July Picnic to Jersey?
3:14 Overview of David’s new book: “Full Time: Work and the Meaning of Life”
4:03 The Myth of “work/life balance”
7:45 The importance of faith and work… and how God created us to work
10:45 The connection of work and life’s purpose
11:50 The too-typical millennial mindset towards retirement
14:45 “The New Right” and their Marxist attitudes towards work
18:50 State intervention on the labor force (including minimum wage)
23:40 Trends towards or away from family growth and development vs. career growth and development
27:00 ESG investing
33:30 Are activists intentionally trying to take down Texas oil companies?
35:44 Texas’ Permanent School Fund recently divested $8.5 billion from BlackRock over ESG investing
38:52 What can the average person do?
Creators & Guests
Host
Brian Phillips
Brian Phillips is the Chief Communications Officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. For over a decade, Brian has helped policymakers and political candidates develop effective messages and communication strategies. Phillips is a veteran of presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial campaigns, and has extensive experience working in the United States Congress and public policy think tanks.
Host
Derek M. Cohen
Derek M. Cohen, Ph.D, is the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Chief Research Officer and Right on Crime Senior Fellow. Previously the Vice President of Policy and director of Right on Crime, the Foundation’s criminal justice reform initiative, Cohen was instrumental in the passage of the First Step Act, federal legislation that borrowed from successful changes to prisons and sentencing that he had helped pass in conservative states. In addition to leading the Foundation’s work on criminal justice, he is also the lead researcher of firearms policy.
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