Episode

How Old People Got all the Power with Samuel Moyn

Podcast
Time To Say Goodbye
Published
Jun 17, 2026
Duration seconds
4596
Processing state
not_requested
Canonical source
https://goodbye.substack.com/p/how-old-people-got-all-the-power
Audio
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202442357/9cb377fdd310143b4be987b76ec79857.mp3
JSON
/v1/public/podcasts/time-to-say-goodbye-29744/episodes/how-old-people-got-all-the-power-with-samuel-moyn
Markdown
/podcast/time-to-say-goodbye-29744/how-old-people-got-all-the-power-with-samuel-moyn.md

Actions

  • POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/time-to-say-goodbye-29744/episodes/how-old-people-got-all-the-power-with-samuel-moyn/transcription-requests
    Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
  • GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/time-to-say-goodbye-29744/how-old-people-got-all-the-power-with-samuel-moyn.md
    Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

Summary

Hello! This week we have on Sam Moyn, a professor at Yale Law School and the author of the new book Gerontocracy in America: How the Old are Hoarding Power and What to do about it. We talk about how the elderly exercise their political and financial power in the country and explore some of the ideas in this book about how to get more money and political power into the hands of the young. This is a fun, heated conversation with a lot of compelling ideas and takes so please give it a listen. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit goodbye.substack.com/subscribe