# AI and Society — Neuvottelija AI

Section index. 52 articles.

- 2026-08-03 — [Origins of the Coronavirus | Jari Kuikanmäki | Negotiator 398](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep398-origins-of-coronavirus-jari-kuikanmaki/index.md): Recorded in English days after Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than a hundred times before a Senate hearing, and weeks after journalist Jari Kuikanmäki's book on the pandemic's origins went to print. Kuikanmäki lays out the case he spent years building, and Miettinen presses on the second half of the story: how authorities, the WHO and the platforms handled dissent, why every country produced its own local truth, and what the collapse of institutional trust costs the next time an authority is right.
  - sections: society, research
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep398-origins-of-coronavirus-jari-kuikanmaki/
- 2026-06-21 — [SpaceX, Elon Musk and envy | Sami Miettinen on Puheenaihe 676](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/puheenaihe-676-spacex-musk-ja-kateus-rami-kurimo/index.md): Sami Miettinen as a guest on Rami Kurimo's Puheenaihe, in the week SpaceX listed and Elon Musk became the first trillionaire. The sharper half is financial: a hundred times revenue tells you nothing about when the price comes down, because the multiple prices optionality — Musk's companies read as a stack of long-dated options, many unexercised and several created out of nothing. The second half is about Finland: imported Marxist class hatred repurposed as identity politics, a country that fails to appreciate even its own successes, and the danger of a subsidiary economy.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/puheenaihe-676-spacex-musk-ja-kateus-rami-kurimo/
- 2026-04-30 — [Finland's 2026 budget framework — what was left? | Sami Miettinen on Paasipodi #71](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/paasipodi-71-kehysriihi-2026/index.md): Two days after the Orpo government's 2026 spending-limits session, Martin Paasi and Sami Miettinen go through what actually survived: the self-employed pension reform, the rewritten taxation of employee share options, youth employment measures, the household deduction and first-home loans — and then the €17 billion annual deficit underneath it all. Preceded by a quarter-hour on the agent architecture both men are now running.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/paasipodi-71-kehysriihi-2026/
- 2026-04-12 — [AI changes everything | Sami Miettinen on Kuuntelija](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/kuuntelija-tekoaly-muuttaa-kaiken-roni-arvonen/index.md): Sami Miettinen as a guest on Roni Arvonen's Kuuntelija for two and a half hours on artificial intelligence: why AI labour is not capital in the Marxist sense but a direct substitute for human work, what that does to a pension system funded by wage-linked contributions, which jobs go first and which go last, and why the case for labour immigration weakens at the same time. The most useful stretch is an hour on how he actually built and runs his own agent — a Mac Mini, OpenClaw, a WhatsApp channel, the security posture, and never building a dependency on a single vendor.
  - sections: openclaw, economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/openclaw/kuuntelija-tekoaly-muuttaa-kaiken-roni-arvonen/
- 2026-03-27 — [The AI storm warning, part II | Sami Miettinen on Paasipodi #66](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/paasipodi-66-tekoalyn-myrskyvaroitus-osa-ii/index.md): Five weeks after the first storm warning, Martin Paasi has bought a laptop, installed the tools and shipped his first application. The sequel is a builder's conversation: a four-model podcast engine that argues with itself, persistent agent memory, why index funds and AI discipline are the same problem, a hard look at the Finnish media, and a live design review of an investment robot that tracks which strategy the market is currently obeying.
  - sections: tools, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/tools/paasipodi-66-tekoalyn-myrskyvaroitus-osa-ii/
- 2026-03-22 — [Communism after all? | Sami Miettinen on Keijon Tuumaustunti #171](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/keijon-tuumaustunti-171-kommunismi-toteutuu-sittenkin/index.md): Topi Salin asks for a report card on the government and gets an argument that the whole left–right frame has expired. Miettinen's case: taxing human labour is a dying business model, superintelligence arrives on a timescale that makes the basic-income debate incoherent in euros, and the Marxist end state may arrive by accident — a planned economy run by free intelligence. Around it, the inheritance tax, the pension system as a negative-NPV contract for the young, and where he is actually putting money.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/keijon-tuumaustunti-171-kommunismi-toteutuu-sittenkin/
- 2025-08-29 — [The capital shortage holding Finland back | Sami Miettinen on Puheenaihe 618](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/puheenaihe-618-paaomien-puute-leevi-leivo/index.md): Sami Miettinen's first solo appearance on Puheenaihe, hosted by Leevi Leivo. The argument is arithmetic: a household with €150,000 has nothing left to invest after the flat, while a €270bn pension complex quite logically wants large foreign targets. Founding a company without capital is hard. The angriest section is the YEL mess — entrepreneurs' pensions were never funded, the state carries a €600m expense, and the fix sits with a vague working group. The second half covers rates, tariffs, the dollar and his own portfolio: cash weight, bitcoin and gold.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/puheenaihe-618-paaomien-puute-leevi-leivo/
- 2025-08-21 — [I am the media | Sami Miettinen on Myynnillä on asiaa #8](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/moa-8-mina-olen-media/index.md): Kert Kenner asks the question a salesperson would: what does it actually take to build your own media, and does it make selling easier? Miettinen answers with five years of operating numbers — why most podcasts die at twelve episodes, why he keeps almost no backlog, what the channel earns and why he does not maximise it, why audio-only is a mistake, and why podcast transcripts are becoming the training material that decides what an AI says about your industry.
  - sections: tools, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/tools/moa-8-mina-olen-media/
- 2025-08-20 — [Euro, ECU2 and Hamilton | Sami Miettinen | Negotiator 347](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep347-euro-ecu2-hamilton-sami-miettinen/index.md): A solo episode, made at the Sisäpiiri audience's request that Sami work through a theory without a guest to argue with. He reflects on monetary systems, the euro and the EU by way of the Hamilton musical in London. At its centre is the ECU-2 proposal from Libera's 2014 book: twelve countries entered the euro by tying their currencies to the ECU basket first, and ECU-2 runs that backwards. A floating currency is counter-cyclical and the euro pro-cyclical — Sweden and Poland took the winning position. The Hamilton half is about what a federation actually requires: a one-off assumption of state debts and a tariff-funded tax base, neither of which the EU has.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep347-euro-ecu2-hamilton-sami-miettinen/
- 2025-03-01 — [The growth report | Sami Miettinen and Martin Paasi on Viisasteluklubi](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/viisasteluklubi-kasvuraportti-perintovero-ja-valtion-koko/index.md): Ivan Puopolo hosts Sami Miettinen and, newly elected to parliament, Martin Paasi to work through the Murto working group's growth proposals — replacing inheritance tax with capital gains tax on disposal, and letting share exchanges roll over untaxed. The conversation turns into the sharpest account of why Finland cannot cut: a first-hand description of how a coalition government's programme survives, and Miettinen's own proposal for making the public sector produce more, better, with less.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/viisasteluklubi-kasvuraportti-perintovero-ja-valtion-koko/
- 2025-01-12 — [Inheritance tax and building wealth | Sami Miettinen on Kuuntelija](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/kuuntelija-perintovero-ja-vaurastuminen-roni-arvonen/index.md): Sami Miettinen as a guest on Roni Arvonen's Kuuntelija on Finland's most hated tax. The core argument is not about revenue: inheritance and gift tax raises around €1.3bn out of an inherited pot of some €7bn, but the damage is compounding cut off at the moment it has the most time left to run. Nobody inherits a sack of cash — they inherit a flat in a place with no market, held in an undivided estate, with the bill due before anything can be sold. Also covered: Sweden's 2005 abolition, an owner economy against a Finland owned by Solidium and the pension system, the euro and the payments imbalance, Poland, and whether Finland needs its own DOGE.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/kuuntelija-perintovero-ja-vaurastuminen-roni-arvonen/
- 2024-07-01 — [Phone anxiety | Isak Rautio, Mikko Alasaarela | Negotiator 258](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep258-puhelinahdistus-isak-rautio-mikko-alasaarela/index.md): Recorded in Futucast's studio as one half of a twin episode, this is a working reading of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation with Futucast host Isak Rautio and algorithmic-influence specialist Mikko Alasaarela. The conversation traces social media's three waves — friend, follower, algorithm — explains why 85 per cent of games are now never-ending free-to-play, works through the American constitutional problem with banning TikTok, and ends on Miettinen's contrarian hope that a conversational AI interface could be addictive enough to rescue us from the short-video feed.
  - sections: society, tools
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep258-puhelinahdistus-isak-rautio-mikko-alasaarela/
- 2024-07-01 — [Social media and the anxious generation | Sami Miettinen on Futucast #465](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/futucast-465-sosiaalinen-media-ja-ahdistunut-sukupolvi/index.md): The other half of a twin recording made in Futucast's studio the same afternoon as Negotiator 258. Isak Rautio, Sami Miettinen and Mikko Alasaarela take Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation in a different direction: the RC-car experiment that showed how fast a recommendation algorithm drifts, why boredom tolerance matters, what happened to boys, and whether the family unit that was supposed to replace all this still works.
  - sections: society, tools
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/futucast-465-sosiaalinen-media-ja-ahdistunut-sukupolvi/
- 2023-11-14 — [A Finnish President | Jussi Halla-aho | Neuvottelija 222](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep222-suomalainen-presidentti-jussi-halla-aho/index.md): Speaker of the Finnish Parliament Jussi Halla-aho and Sami Miettinen discuss the Speaker's role, parliament as the core of democracy, and the Finnish party system's drift toward a bloc structure. The episode weighs the explanatory power of the left-right axis, the new cleavages replacing it, and the political mobilisation of trade unions against labour market reform. The conversation covers the Nord Stream sabotage, the future of Finnish-Russian economic relations, proposed settlements for the Middle East conflict, and the structural problems of immigration and integration. It closes on the communal value of institutions and traditions, and presidential value leadership.
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep222-suomalainen-presidentti-jussi-halla-aho/
- 2023-08-28 — [The economy holds, Finland does not | Sami Miettinen on 23 minuuttia #708](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/23-minuuttia-708-talous-kestaa-suomi-ei/index.md): A year after the Uniper negotiation, Miettinen returns to score it: what the worst case would have been, why the German state's stake was priced the way it was, and what Germany did with the gas price the moment it took control. From there to why he is unsentimental about Germany's industrial decline, why Finland managed to get poorer in nominal dollars, where the next banking crisis actually sits, and whether the BRICS bloc is anything to worry about.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/23-minuuttia-708-talous-kestaa-suomi-ei/
- 2022-12-06 — [Negotiating your own pay rise | Sami Miettinen on Sijoituskästi #102](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/sijoituskasti-102-nain-neuvottelet-palkankorotuksen/index.md): Teemu Liila and Kevin van Dessel ask for the step-by-step version rather than the platitudes, and get it: use Finland's open tax records to plot your colleagues' pay against their tenure, set the promotion conversation eighteen months early, come back with the goals your boss gave you, and then stay quiet. Around it, an unusually candid tour of investment banking — Credit Suisse First Boston hours, the Nordea deal Miettinen calls his biggest win and his biggest failure at once, project code names, fee structures, and why he stopped hiring his own mirror image.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/sijoituskasti-102-nain-neuvottelet-palkankorotuksen/
- 2022-09-08 — [The Uniper negotiation, read as a negotiation | Sami Miettinen on Rahapodi #297](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/rahapodi-297-keskiluokka-uniper-ja-kontraaminen/index.md): Rahapodi obtained the Uniper negotiation memos by information request and brought in Sami Miettinen to read them as a negotiator rather than a commentator. His verdict: Finland sent the wrong seniority to the wrong subject, defended a sunk seven billion instead of the eight billion still recoverable, and never used the leverage it actually held — Germany's gas dependency and the option of filing Uniper into bankruptcy.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/rahapodi-297-keskiluokka-uniper-ja-kontraaminen/
- 2022-08-26 — [Sanna Marin's Dark Clouds | Ivan Puopolo | Neuvottelija 150](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep150-sanna-marinin-synkat-pilvet-ivan-puopolo/index.md): Journalist Ivan Puopolo and Sami Miettinen examine Sanna Marin administration policies, media dynamics, and public discourse culture. The episode analyzes public finance trends, national debt accumulation, and the interdependence between politics and journalism. The discussion addresses freedom of speech, journalism standards, and political personalization in the social media era. Finally, the role of media as a democratic watchdog and conditions for critical debate are discussed.
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep150-sanna-marinin-synkat-pilvet-ivan-puopolo/
- 2022-08-22 — [Even the bankers are poor in Finland | Sami Miettinen on 23 minuuttia #489](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/23-minuuttia-489-suomessa-pankkiiritkin-ovat-koyhia/index.md): Jussi Heikelä and Arto Koskelo put the Credit Suisse wealth report on screen and ask whether Finland is rich or poor. Miettinen's answer runs through the €600bn of Finnish net wealth of which €400bn sits in homes, why only 1.9 per cent of adults are dollar millionaires against Sweden's 7, what Iceland did differently after its banking crisis, and — the part he was really brought on for — what makes a good negotiator and why Finland does not prepare.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/23-minuuttia-489-suomessa-pankkiiritkin-ovat-koyhia/
- 2022-08-08 — [The end of the world is just the beginning | Sami Miettinen on Futucast #289](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/futucast-289-maailmanloppu-on-vain-alkua/index.md): William von der Pahlen, Isak Rautio and Sami Miettinen read Peter Zeihan's The End of the World Is Just the Beginning against Ray Dalio's changing world order — depopulation and deglobalisation on one side, debt and hegemonic cycles on the other. Miettinen takes Zeihan's demographics seriously and his deglobalisation absolutism much less so, and the argument turns on whether markets and automation can outrun a shrinking workforce.
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/futucast-289-maailmanloppu-on-vain-alkua/
- 2022-06-19 — [Principles for a New World Order | Antero Vartia | Negotiator 142](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep142-uuden-maailmanjarjestyksen-periaatteet-antero-vartia/index.md): Antero Vartia returns to Neuvottelija two years after the first conversation, and the subject is the same as it was then: principle. The episode covers why flexibility can itself be a principle and staying in the truth its bedrock, what Ray Dalio's three cycles say about a changing world order, and what the book did not live to see of the war in Ukraine and China's Covid policy. It also runs through the link between the inflation spiral and populism, Acemoglu and Robinson's narrow corridor, the two classic market failures, and Compensate's three-and-a-half-year money-collection-law process, during which the company was effectively barred from trading without the matter ever reaching a district court. It closes on meditation, ego, and why executives practise it quietly.
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep142-uuden-maailmanjarjestyksen-periaatteet-antero-vartia/
- 2022-04-19 — [Russia in Ukraine and Victory Day | Pekka Toveri | Neuvottelija 133](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep133-venaja-ukrainassa-voiton-paiva-pekka-toveri/index.md): Major General retired Pekka Toveri and Sami Miettinen assess what Russia is trying to achieve by Victory Day on 9 May and why Mariupol is both a symbolic and a strategic necessity. The episode unpacks the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, the targeting behind the Neptune missiles, and the role of Bayraktar drones as a distraction. The discussion covers the structure of the battalion tactical group, Russia's manpower shortage and recruitment from its poorest regions, and the effect of sanctions on arms production. It closes on the risks around the Finnish and Swedish NATO applications, nuclear rhetoric, and the value of a domestic defence industry.
  - sections: society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep133-venaja-ukrainassa-voiton-paiva-pekka-toveri/
- 2022-03-12 — [Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and Putin's War | Pekka Toveri | Neuvottelija 125](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep125-hyokkays-ukrainaan-putin-pekka-toveri/index.md): Major General (ret.) Pekka Toveri analyzes the first 2.5 weeks of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the Neuvottelija channel: why armored columns drove into a clump and were shot up, why the famous 60-kilometer column got stuck, what the T-72, T-64 and the Armata 'wonder-weapon' reveal about the fleet, why the Russian air force cannot mount an air operation, how railway-based logistics failed, and why a false political situation picture collapsed the whole plan. Featuring Bayraktar drones, Javelin and NLAW top-attacks, Iskander missile stocks, the 'learned victory' of Chechnya and Syria, Putin's siloviki machine and corruption, nuclear escalation, China and Taiwan, and Finland's road to NATO. The assessments are Toveri's, made in the situation of March 2022.
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep125-hyokkays-ukrainaan-putin-pekka-toveri/
- 2022-02-25 — [Ukraine special | Sami Miettinen on Viisasteluklubi](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/viisasteluklubi-ukraina-spesiaali-puopolo-sammallahti/index.md): Sami Miettinen, Tere Sammallahti and host Ivan Puopolo recorded on 25 February 2022, the day after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. A contemporaneous record rather than a retrospective: what the balance of forces looked like, why Russia advanced without air supremacy, whether SWIFT exclusion or targeted bank sanctions bite harder, and the Finnish NATO question at the moment it stopped being theoretical. The last third covers the information war, the Russian-speaking minority in Finland, a market crash as a buying opportunity, and Jokerit in the KHL.
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/viisasteluklubi-ukraina-spesiaali-puopolo-sammallahti/
- 2022-01-13 — [Bringing back the markka | Sami Miettinen on Rahapodi #270](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/rahapodi-270-markka-takaisin/index.md): Nordnet's Rahapodi frames Finland as a hostage and asks whether the markka could actually be brought back. Sami Miettinen walks through the two legal doctrines that decide it, why the 2015 Greek near-exit closed the loophole, what the €67bn Target 2 surplus is worth in a divorce, and the parallel-currency design he would propose instead — before concluding that a euro nobody can raise rates in may be a gift rather than a trap.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/rahapodi-270-markka-takaisin/
- 2021-05-26 — [Negotiation and social skills | Sami Miettinen on Sinnu's podcast](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/sinnu-50-neuvottelutaito-ja-sosiaaliset-taidot/index.md): Psychologist Sinnu Savola interviews Sami Miettinen on the social and psychological side of negotiation. Along the way: Martti Ahtisaari's fifteen-person negotiating team and the realisation that almost nobody knows how to negotiate as a team, emotional regulation as a stress function running from eustress to the amygdala hijack, why personality models remain useful even when crude, the alpha–beta–gamma roles in a negotiating team, why the seemingly weak role gathers the most information, and where negotiation ends and manipulation begins.
  - sections: society, tools
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/sinnu-50-neuvottelutaito-ja-sosiaaliset-taidot/
- 2021-01-12 — [Trump's impeachment and deplatforming | Antti Ronkainen | Negotiator 57](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep57-trumpin-viraltapano-ja-bannaus-antti-ronkainen/index.md): Recorded six days after the storming of the Capitol and a week before the inauguration, researcher Antti Ronkainen reads the event as a chain of security failures with an unresolved question of intent at its centre. The episode covers why Trump was never capable of a conventional coup, the split between Republican 'gamers' and 'breakers', why holding the Senate would have served the party better than Trump did, and what the coordinated deplatforming of a sitting president means for the relationship between Big Tech and power.
  - sections: society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep57-trumpin-viraltapano-ja-bannaus-antti-ronkainen/
- 2021-01-07 — [Carbon compensation | Elina Kajosaari | Negotiator 56](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep56-paastokompensointi-elina-kajosaari/index.md): Compensate CEO Elina Kajosaari explains why the carbon sequestration market is the Wild West and what verifying quality compensation actually takes: of roughly a hundred projects drawn from the best of the two best-known standards, only about ten per cent passed Compensate's own criteria. The episode covers the design flaw in capitalism that leaves climate harm out of prices, the correct order of reduction and compensation, over-compensation through quality multipliers, and the Finnish legal ambiguity that froze the whole sector — is sequestering carbon a service or a money collection?
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep56-paastokompensointi-elina-kajosaari/
- 2021-01-01 — [Psychology and channel feedback | Kaisa Mäkelä | Negotiator 55](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep55-psykologia-ja-neuvottelija-palaute-kaisa-makela/index.md): Kaisa Mäkelä, founder of the startup Awareness Recreated, discusses consciousness, cognitive distortions and how non-verbal feedback exposes your own biases. This is an informal feedback episode that also covers the non-verbal synchronisation broken by remote work, the channel dependency of online communities, and trolls as a psychological phenomenon. Towards the end Miettinen challenges the standing of Freud and Jung, and Mäkelä explains why the old theories have survived — even though they are details within an extremely broad science.
  - sections: society, tools
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep55-psykologia-ja-neuvottelija-palaute-kaisa-makela/
- 2020-12-23 — [The Great Reset | Tuomas Malinen | Negotiator 54](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep54-the-great-reset-tuomas-malinen/index.md): The channel's audience voted for the year's closing episode and chose Tuomas Malinen on the Great Reset. He argues the V-shaped recovery is artificial — built on record global debt and debt moratoria that suspend normal bankruptcy law — and reads the World Economic Forum's programme as a path towards greater state control sold on attractive language. The episode covers central bank digital currency, Acemoglu and Robinson's narrow corridor, and Malinen's own recipe: take the economic hit, keep the freedoms.
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep54-the-great-reset-tuomas-malinen/
- 2020-12-08 — [Equality and free speech | Ivan Puopolo | Negotiator 51](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep51-tasa-arvo-ja-sananvapaus-ivan-puopolo/index.md): Journalist Ivan Puopolo argues that free speech is a relationship between a citizen and the state and nothing else — which is why a broadcaster, an employer or a platform declining to publish you restricts nothing. The episode opens with a live free speech test on Puopolo's own identities and moves through the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome, what the word 'structural' adds to 'racism', why Macron's Enlightenment defence found so few supporters, the problem of judging intent in hate speech law, and the Nordic gender equality paradox. Miettinen pushes back throughout on bias in hiring and on whether the market really corrects it.
  - sections: society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep51-tasa-arvo-ja-sananvapaus-ivan-puopolo/
- 2020-12-03 — [The EU's opposition | Sari Essayah | Negotiator 50](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep50-eun-oppositio-sari-essayah/index.md): Christian Democrat leader and former MEP Sari Essayah explains why the claim that 'there is no opposition in the EU' is partly true — and what actually takes its place. The episode covers the Commission's monopoly on legislative initiative, the Council as the counterweight that watches the money, the division of labour between rapporteur and shadow rapporteur in shaping legislation, and why the Parliament has been called a dangerous institution. Essayah closes with a concrete reform proposal and an assessment of the recovery fund's passage, in which treaty articles were, in her words, interpreted very creatively.
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep50-eun-oppositio-sari-essayah/
- 2020-11-25 — [The exit handbook and capital income | Kim Väisänen | Negotiator 48](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep48-exit-opas-ja-paaomatulot-kim-vaisanen/index.md): Kim Väisänen and Sami Miettinen work through how a person actually moves between wealth classes in Finland — and why most imagined shortcuts are not shortcuts. The episode dismantles the myth that income classes are permanent, notes that Finland's poorest postcode is almost always Otaniemi, and works out what the 1:10 ratio between earned and capital income means for the tax debate. Startup investing turns out to be a poor route to wealth, leaving one: building and selling a company. Väisänen sets out the five things that have to be right for a good exit, and why preparation takes two years rather than two quarters.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep48-exit-opas-ja-paaomatulot-kim-vaisanen/
- 2020-11-24 — [An alternative to the euro: the ECU-2 basket | Sami Miettinen and Juhana Vartiainen on Puheenaihe 131](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/puheenaihe-131-ecu-2-kori-juhana-vartiainen/index.md): The episode where Sami Miettinen's ECU-2 proposal meets a serious opponent. Puheenaihe put him opposite MP and economist Juhana Vartiainen, who does not buy it. The proposal is to reverse the euro's own construction: reintroduce national currencies as parallel money and define the euro juridically as their weighted sum. Vartiainen's objection is direct — if the willingness to tax German surpluses does not exist, no currency architecture creates it, and Finland's adjustment problem is domestic. Also covered: Target2, federation without transfers, fiscal dominance and Greece in 2015.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/puheenaihe-131-ecu-2-kori-juhana-vartiainen/
- 2020-10-29 — [The second wave and a global dystopia | Tuomas Malinen | Negotiator 43](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep43-koronan-toinen-aalto-ja-globaali-dystopia-tuomas-malinen/index.md): GNS Economics' Tuomas Malinen and Sami Miettinen work through the economic consequences of the coronavirus second wave and arrive at the episode's central worry: every solution being offered to the crisis is a centralised one. The economy already collapsed in the second quarter, and that collapse has been prevented from realising through bankruptcy moratoria — a carpet pulled over the chasm. The core of the discussion is central bank digital currency and the Chinese model, in which private payment systems are forced to settle in central bank money, opening a path where the commercial banking system becomes unnecessary. Malinen closes on the question the episode keeps returning to: will we let fear take away freedoms bought with tens of millions of lives?
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep43-koronan-toinen-aalto-ja-globaali-dystopia-tuomas-malinen/
- 2020-10-26 — [White hats and the Vastaamo extortion | Juho Ranta | Negotiator 42](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep42-2ns-valkohatut-ja-vastaamon-kiristys-juho-ranta/index.md): Second Nature Security CTO Juho Ranta unpacks the Vastaamo data breach and extortion while it was still unfolding: what white hat and black hat actually mean, why Tor and bitcoin are double-edged in the same way, and why you should neither pay the extortionist nor read the leaked files. The episode also covers common misunderstandings about GDPR, password practice and two-factor authentication, the three identifiers of which only two can be changed, and why security has to be run on the business's terms rather than by staring at a single system.
  - sections: society, tools
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep42-2ns-valkohatut-ja-vastaamon-kiristys-juho-ranta/
- 2020-10-17 — [How the US federation was built | Manolis Huuki | Negotiator 40](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep40-usan-liittovaltiokehitys-manolis-huuki/index.md): Huuki Show host and political history student Manolis Huuki walks through the birth of the American federation: taxation without representation, the Articles of Confederation, the quarrel between federalists and anti-federalists, the three-fifths compromise and the federal debt that took off after the Civil War. The second half applies all of it to the European Union. The sharpest observation is numerical: US federal and state government together run at around 30 per cent of GDP, while Finland alone is at 42 — so copying a Hamiltonian moment would mean moving taxes to Brussels and cutting the rate, not building a new layer on top.
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep40-usan-liittovaltiokehitys-manolis-huuki/
- 2020-10-10 — [The Saavutus podcast and the psychology of goals | Aaro Huttunen | Negotiator 39](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep39-saavutus-podcast-aaro-huttunen/index.md): Aaro Huttunen, host of the Saavutus podcast, appears in a twin episode covering individual goal-setting and the self-improvement literature behind it. Along the way: Risto Siilasmaa's paranoid optimism as corporate scenario analysis, the success laws of Brian Tracy and Jari Sarasvuo, Tony Robbins's pain-and-pleasure anchoring, NLP's eye-movement theory and how much to trust it, Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad, and biohacking in Finnish conditions. Running through it is Huttunen's principle: every episode has to leave the listener something concrete they can actually use.
  - sections: tools, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/tools/ep39-saavutus-podcast-aaro-huttunen/
- 2020-10-01 — [V-curves and Taistoism | Tuomas Malinen | Negotiator 38](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep38-v-kayria-ja-taistolaisuutta-tuomas-malinen/index.md): GNS Economics CEO Tuomas Malinen explains why the firm's latest Q-review contained no positive scenario at all for the first time: the options are collapse, reset and great inflation. A European banking crisis has become the baseline. Malinen unpicks why record-low junk bond yields cannot coexist with record-high large corporate bankruptcies unless a central bank has broken the pricing mechanism, and why debt-financed stimulus in an over-indebted economy creates the conditions for a debt crisis. The second half covers the public clash between the Finnish government and business leaders, what corporate social responsibility actually means, and the quality of the debate over the EU recovery fund.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep38-v-kayria-ja-taistolaisuutta-tuomas-malinen/
- 2020-09-09 — [Life after RBS and pinBox Solutions – Sanjeev Kumar | Negotiator 36](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep36-elama-rbs-jalkeen-pinbox-solutions-sanjeev-kumar/index.md): Sami Miettinen's former Royal Bank of Scotland colleague Sanjeev Kumar, based in Singapore, traces his path from running RBS's global corporate advisory business through MUFG to a new chapter — and explains why he joined the global advisory board of pinBox Solutions. pinBox builds digital micro-pension systems for low-income workers, especially women and the non-salaried: live in Rwanda and Kenya, just launched in India. The conversation compares Finland's collective pension system with Singapore's personal-account model, works through the allocation problem in defined-contribution schemes, and lands on why longevity, financial inclusion and impact investing make finance more interesting after the global financial crisis than it was before it.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep36-elama-rbs-jalkeen-pinbox-solutions-sanjeev-kumar/
- 2020-08-29 — [Hostage negotiation and pressure | Helena Åhman | Negotiator 34](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep34-panttivankineuvottelut-ja-painetilanteet-helena-ahman/index.md): Helena Åhman explains how the methods of hostage negotiators transfer to the executive team and to difficult conversations at work. The conversation covers the difference between George Kohlrieser's and Chris Voss's schools and what they share — situational awareness — probing values and identity before reaching for solutions, the alpha–beta–gamma roles inside a negotiating team and the amateur mistake of not using them, regulating your own state under pressure through breathing, and building an emotional bond in spite of friction.
  - sections: tools, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/tools/ep34-panttivankineuvottelut-ja-painetilanteet-helena-ahman/
- 2020-08-24 — [Security policy, the euro and NATO | Vesa Kanniainen | Negotiator 33](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep33-turvallisuuspolitiikka-euro-ja-nato-vesa-kanniainen/index.md): Vesa Kanniainen, emeritus professor of economics, examines Finland's permanent security deficit and why he considers EU membership one of the most significant post-war security decisions the country has made — even though he is best known as a euro critic. The episode covers a game-theoretic reading of the YYA treaty, the NATO option and the price of exercising it as shared responsibility for the Baltics, the costs of the common currency and the parallel-currency idea, and Kanniainen's work at the boundary of morality and economics from Adam Smith to Vernon Smith.
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep33-turvallisuuspolitiikka-euro-ja-nato-vesa-kanniainen/
- 2020-08-20 — [Taxation, the Laffer curve and Libera | Tere Sammallahti | Negotiator 32](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep32-verotus-lafferin-kayra-ja-libera-tere-sammallahti/index.md): Tere Sammallahti of the think tank Libera asks why Finnish tax debate always aims at the peak of the Laffer curve and never at collecting as little tax as possible. The conversation covers the problem of cherry-picked comparison periods in economic argument, the scale of transfers and Gini figures, a three-dimensional political coordinate system, universally binding collective agreements and the position of the non-unionised worker, and taxing externalities as a way to fund lower taxes on work.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep32-verotus-lafferin-kayra-ja-libera-tere-sammallahti/
- 2020-08-12 — [The stealth federalization of the EU | Tuomas Malinen | Negotiator 31](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep31-eun-hiipiva-federalisoituminen-tuomas-malinen/index.md): An English-language episode in which Tuomas Malinen lays out the mechanics of the recovery fund for an international audience: a 750-billion package split into grants and loans, allocated on GDP per capita and 2015–2019 unemployment — variables with no connection to the pandemic. He also presents GnS Economics' synthetic markka simulation, which suggests the Finnish economy would have come through the 2008 crisis substantially better with its own currency.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep31-eun-hiipiva-federalisoituminen-tuomas-malinen/
- 2020-08-06 — [The EU recovery fund and fiscal transfers | Tuomas Malinen | Negotiator 30](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep30-eun-elpymisrahasto-ja-tulonsiirrot-tuomas-malinen/index.md): Tuomas Malinen of GnS Economics walks through the structure of the EU recovery fund and argues it is a permanent transfer mechanism rather than a one-off crisis measure: the allocation criteria do not correlate with Covid, the EU borrows directly into member-state budgets for the first time, and the balanced-budget requirement of Article 310 is bypassed. The conversation covers the German constitutional court's ultra vires ruling, the scale of Italy's debt, the arithmetic of Finland's negotiated outcome, and the case for a referendum.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep30-eun-elpymisrahasto-ja-tulonsiirrot-tuomas-malinen/
- 2020-08-03 — [Growth, institutions and Acemoğlu | Mika Maliranta | Negotiator 29](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep29-kilpailu-instituutiot-ja-talouskasvu-mika-maliranta/index.md): Mika Maliranta, research professor at the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority, explains why firms exist at all (the Coase theorem), where the line runs between vertical and horizontal integration, and how natural monopolies are regulated. The second half takes up Acemoğlu and Robinson's institutional theory, The Narrow Corridor and Hayek: why good institutions are not adopted even when they are well known, why some institution always fills the gap — the mafia included — and why the Nordic model and earnings-related unemployment insurance actually encourage risk-taking.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep29-kilpailu-instituutiot-ja-talouskasvu-mika-maliranta/
- 2020-06-19 — [The Markka and the Coming Federation | Tuomas Malinen | Neuvottelija 25](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep25-markka-ja-tuleva-liittovaltio-tuomas-malinen/index.md): Tuomas Malinen of GnS Economics and Sami Miettinen revisit the three scenarios they set out in their book on the euro's future six years earlier: zombification through the ECB's balance sheet, a move to federation, and fragmentation of the euro area. Malinen reads the pandemic as a classic asymmetric shock being explained away as a symmetric one, and argues the EU has moved onto a path that breaches its own treaties in both the recovery fund and the ECB's pandemic programme. The episode covers the Karlsruhe court's deadline for the Bundesbank, Finland's hidden contingent liabilities, and why a floating currency works as a countercyclical safety valve. It closes with Malinen's pointed promise about leaving the euro and a scenario in which the recovery package fails in national parliaments.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep25-markka-ja-tuleva-liittovaltio-tuomas-malinen/
- 2020-06-18 — [Charts on the Facts: Markka or Federation | Tuomas Malinen | Neuvottelija 24](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep24-faktakaaviot-markka-vai-liittovaltio-tuomas-malinen/index.md): Tuomas Malinen of GnS Economics and Sami Miettinen work slide by slide through the most common misconceptions about an independent currency and an EU federation. The episode shows that Finnish interest rates were not exceptionally high during the markka era once the currency floated, and that the rate spike came from defending a fixed exchange rate rather than from having one's own money. The discussion presents the GnS simulation of how the markka would have moved during the euro years and its countercyclical effect, and compares US federal tax levels with the EU equivalent. It closes on Puerto Rico's debt restructuring, the broken no-bailout principle, and where a federation's ten-point tax increase would come from.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep24-faktakaaviot-markka-vai-liittovaltio-tuomas-malinen/
- 2020-06-01 — [The Role of Podcasts in Public Debate | Sami Miettinen on Futucast | Futucast 87](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/futucast-87-podcastien-rooli-yhteiskunnallisessa-keskustelussa/index.md): Sami Miettinen is a guest on Futucast, hosted by William von der Pahlen and Isak Rautio, in a conversation about what unedited long-form talk does to public debate. The episode opens up the Overton window and the risk that a society's consensus drifts badly out of line with reality when the range of the discussable is never widened. The discussion sets identity politics — judging a claim by which box the speaker fits — against Ray Dalio's believability weighting, where a track record on that specific subject earns the hearing. The sharpest observation concerns institutions: inside a bank, a party or an agency every sentence is read as the institution's position, leaving only entrepreneurs and the not-yet-hired free to speak.
  - sections: society, tools
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/futucast-87-podcastien-rooli-yhteiskunnallisessa-keskustelussa/
- 2020-02-21 — [Identity Politics – Antti Ronkainen | Neuvottelija 6](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/ep6-identiteettipolitiikka-antti-ronkainen/index.md): Doctoral researcher Antti Ronkainen unpacks the mechanics of identity politics as the megatrend of political influence: why Boris Johnson won with a single identity while Corbyn's Labour leaked in every direction, how Fukuyama's thymos and the white worker explain Trump's rise, what Krastev and Piketty reveal about imitation and the left's gentrification, and why identity politics is a 'cage of democracy.' Featuring the Overton window, the 'Frankfurt School' myth, Bloomberg's micro-targeting, and the crisis of Finland's and Kokoomus's center-right.
  - sections: society, economy
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep6-identiteettipolitiikka-antti-ronkainen/
- 2020-02-03 — [Negotiation skills and ownership | Sami Miettinen and Tero Luoma on Puheenaihe 53](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/puheenaihe-53-neuvottelutaidot-ja-omistajuus/index.md): Rami Kurimo puts a negotiation author and an ownership author in the same room and asks whether you can negotiate your way to a million. What comes out is a two-part conversation: the four levers of negotiation and the team roles nobody bothers to agree before walking into the room, and then the distinction Luoma draws between an owner and an investor — the owner is the one who has to negotiate. Underneath both sits the same Finnish problem: too little private capital and too few owners.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/puheenaihe-53-neuvottelutaidot-ja-omistajuus/
- 2019-10-31 — [The international monetary system | Sami Miettinen on Puheenaihe 44](https://ai.neuvottelija.com/puheenaihe-44-kansainvalinen-rahajarjestelma-sam-laakso/index.md): Sami Miettinen and Sam Laakso on Puheenaihe in October 2019, at the tail of what was then the longest expansion in American history and one of the weakest by average growth. The argument that carries the episode is about pegs: a gold standard rebalances itself, but the mechanism breaks when a local currency is tied one-to-one to an international settlement currency while labour markets stay rigid — which is precisely the euro's defect. Also covered: the policy rate as a deliberate choice, Russia's digital gold-backed currency, Libra as an SDR-like basket, the scale of crypto, and housing.
  - sections: economy, society
  - suomeksi: https://ai.neuvottelija.fi/economy/puheenaihe-44-kansainvalinen-rahajarjestelma-sam-laakso/

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