019: On Money and Debt

The Truth Is So Boring
The Truth Is So Boring
019: On Money and Debt
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Striketober

@JonahFurman
10,000 John Deere UAW workers set to strike tonight at midnight.

60,000 film and TV IATSE workers set to strike on Monday

37,000 Kaiser workers have authorized, close behind.

@msainat1


60,000 Film and TV workers set 10/18 strike date
10,000 John Deere workers strike deadline tonight
2k hospital workers in Buffalo already on strike
1,400 Kellogg’s cereal workers
1,100 coal miners in Alabama
30k+ Kaiser Permanente health workers authorized strike


@Independent
Russian spy ‘stole AstraZeneca vaccine blueprint and used it to develop Sputnik jab’


@ScottHech
Not only did NYT publish a front page story 2 days ago about how police were “defunded” when every police department everywhere got increases — they blamed rising crime (also a lie — only homicides increased) on “defunding” of police!

Main segment

We spent the majority of the episode listening to some excerpts I chose from the audiobook of David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years. In the end we discuss the implications of this information and why I (Scott) felt it was so important to discuss.

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