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. >> tom friedman says the world is frat. t flat. we're like a chain that is only as strong as our weakest link, if middle america isn't doing something different, then what does it matter? it comes here eventually. >> it does, but what you said before was profoundly true. if someone's vaccinated, particularly they've gotten that booster, they're a hell of a lot safer. they still might get covid. i might get covid, but we're going to live through it. we probably don't end up in the hospital, which is not only good for you and me. it's good for the whole society. it's good so that our hospital system can treat people in greater need. i believe the more mandates, the more impact, and we've got to be bold about this. ma mayors, governors, ceos, bite the bullet. just do it. yeah, you're going to have protests. guess what, it's a global pandemic. suck it up. go and do it, get it done. >> should there be an exception in your mandate for people who have had it. i know if they've had monocrowal treatment or pla. >> not if you listen to all o

tom started as a marxist, thinking the government did have a positive role to play in the 20s, he remained after studying economics under friedman of chicago. he said it changed his mind was working in the government and the department of labor. what he saw was the government was not always a benevolent force and it can be quite harmful to glibly when it comes to low income minority groups and in this case it came after minimum wage laws and what they were doing in terms of the effects of unemployment. >> you mentioned studying under milton friedman, did milton friedman have a big impact on him? >> yes in several ways. friedman -- i think one of the bigger impacts he had on him was public intellectualism what he's best known for today and what i mean by that is after friedman left teaching in the 70s after he won his nobel prize and left the university of chicago, he said, he started writing popular books, people who were not economists or intellectuals, he did a lot of speaking to such groups, college campuses and elsewhere, he felt it's not simply to talk to your peers in the academy but explain your discipline to people who a

even after tom left he was still teaching through that column and he was the best professor people had so i think that public intellectualism to a certain extent that friedman was a mentor. >> he studied under a persuasive left-wing economist you thank you would've turned out differently? >> no. probably not. he was very much his own man george stigler was another economist that he studied under in chicago he studied under jerry becker working on his masters. but no. he is his own man. even after studying under friedman someone has to figure this stuff out i don't think a professor would've changed his mind he has been very independent-minded for a very long time. >> what was his first big hit? >> i would probably say ethnic america coming out 1981 that was a big hit it got a tremendous amount of coverage. it is a book about different ethnic groups that come to the us and he traces their history and he also talks about culture and its upward mobility and how if you have the right human capital and the skills and habits and the behaviors that are conducive that you will be okay even if larger society discriminates so to see examples of this not only in the u