Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas

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  This is Planet Money from NPR.

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  So economists have big ideas, right?

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  Ideas that they think would improve the economy, improve efficiency, improve our lives.

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  And sometimes their ideas are a little out there, but they are convinced that they would improve the world if only people would hear them out.

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  So today we hear them out.

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  Hello, and welcome to Planet Money.

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  I'm Sara Gonzalez.

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  We have three big ideas from economists and an engineer for your consideration.

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  The ideas are we ban left turns on the road.

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  No one can make left turns anymore.

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  We give people basically Social Security, but not just at the end of their life at birth for them to use the minute they become adults.

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  And we no longer vote for individual candidates.

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  What?

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  Okay, so we have three big ideas for you.

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  The first is from a civil engineer, Vakash Gaia, who almost went into soil engineering until he found found traffic engineering.

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