Do you have moral ambition?

I'm Iina Garten and each week on Happy Hour I invite new and old friends for a drink and a fun conversation at my kitchen table in New York City. On this week's episode, I'm joined by Nathan Lane. We talk about his critically acclaimed run in Death of a Salesman, taking his dog to therapy, and winning an Emmy for Only Murders in the Building. New episodes of Happy Hour are available every Wednesday. You can watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Cheers. Who chose your outfit today? You may not realize it, but the stylist behind your look probably isn't human. What we're seeing is that mall brands, fast fashion brands, They're looking for algorithmic inputs from the internet to figure out what people like and what will sell.

And then they're making products that way. This week on Explain It to Me, how the algorithm transformed fast fashion. Listen Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. We're told from a young age to achieve, get good grades, get into a good school, get a good job, be ambitious about earning a high salary or a high status position. Some of us love this endless climb, but lots of us, at least once in our lives, find ourselves asking, what's the point of all this ambition?

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