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