Let's Appreciate

New York City just proposed the first municipal click-to-cancel rule in the country, a direct answer to the subscription traps that keep you paying for gyms you don't go to and apps you forgot you had. I sat down with Sam Levine, Commissioner of NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (and former head of the FTC's consumer protection bureau, where the federal version of this rule was written before a court struck it down), to talk about what the rule actually requires, why the city stopped waiting on Washington, and what it's like when even the consumer protection commissioner can't cancel a subscription.
We get into what a compliant cancellation actually looks like, how enforcement works (it runs on your complaints:  nyc.gov/consumers or 311), the Roosevelt Institute's estimate that this could save New Yorkers up to $162 million and 600,000 hours a year, and why Levine thinks the deeper stakes are about whether people believe government can work at all.

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I sat down with Gina Raimondo, the 75th governor of Rhode Island and 40th Secretary of Commerce, now the founder and CEO of a new organization called RaiseUS. We talked about how her new project helps workers transition through the AI economy by using a holistic approach across employers, educational institutions, and the government.

Transcript here: https://kyla.substack.com/p/is-ai-going-to-destroy-our-lives

Transcript:https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-ozempicization-of-the-economy
And the shows!! Come hang out!!
March 29th, Los Angeles: with Kai Ryssdal and David Brancaccio at the Aratani Theater https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/laistofficial/Marketplace-LIVE-with-Kai-Ryssdal
April 19th, Boulder CO: with Planet Money team at Boulder Theater https://www.axs.com/events/1290779/nprs-planet-money-tickets?skin=bouldertheater
April 20th: with Planet Money again in Albuequerque, New Mexico https://artsandculture.cabq.gov/13522/13523

Full transcript: https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-great-entertainment