Speaker 1: It's kind of wild to think back to the beginning
Speaker 1: of the pandemic, when it felt like we were having
Speaker 1: a shared experience with billions of people around the world.
Speaker 1: Everyone everywhere had to learn to survive and manage the virus,
Speaker 1: not just from a public health standpoint, but from an
Speaker 1: economic one too. But in the two years since, what's
Speaker 1: become clear is that different countries approached to the pandemic
Speaker 1: and their relative wealth going in have resulted in vastly
Speaker 1: different outcomes. It's almost been like a perverse global experiment.
Speaker 1: So for our fourth season, the Paycheck podcast is going
Speaker 1: to seven countries to try to understand how those variables
Speaker 1: affected economic inequality. In many ways, the pandemic has made
Speaker 1: inequality much worse. So this pandemic, we're witnessing the biggest
Speaker 1: increase in billionaire Welsh since records began, and a billionaire
Speaker 1: was created every twenty six hours during this pandemic. If
Speaker 1: you just look at Euan Musk, for example, there was
Speaker 1: a lot of chatter at the time that he might
Speaker 1: have a chance to become a trillionaire, But not everywhere
Speaker 1: or everyone has felt the pain equally. Some places and
Speaker 1: people have been hit particularly hard for all Brazilians. The
Speaker 1: cost of living is really getting unbearable, and it's the
Speaker 1: poor and the once booming middle classes that are bearing
Speaker 1: the brun With COVID, it was so big because the
Speaker 1: problem was the schools had all shut down and a
Speaker 1: lot of support that all these girls get comes from
Speaker 1: their schooling. Suddenly we started getting a lot of possible
Speaker 1: chili mad it. But some others are showing the way
Speaker 1: to a more equal world. Oh my goodness, I said,
Speaker 1: is she place tell me I was selected? And she
Speaker 1: was just laughing. She's like, oh yeah, just killing me
Speaker 1: with this. I'm just loving to react you for me.
Speaker 1: I see lights, I see like I'm going to that
Speaker 1: moon that I wanted. Season four of The Paycheck launches
Speaker 1: next week. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Seem a twelve