Podcast
Behind the Bastards
It was cited in the context of the New Deal, suggesting that some saw it as a way for capitalists to avoid a socialist revolution by maintaining the existing system.
actual socialists like Nicole Ashoff, who wrote The New Prophets of Capital, saw the new deal or see the new deal as it was essentially a way for capitalists who were more reasonable and less monstrou...
— Episode: Part One: How The Rich Ate Christianity
Episode: Part One: How The Rich Ate Christianity
It was cited in the context of the New Deal, suggesting that some saw it as a way for capitalists to avoid a socialist revolution by maintaining the existing system.
actual socialists like Nicole Ashoff, who wrote The New Prophets of Capital, saw the new deal or see the new deal as it was essentially a way for capitalists who were more reasonable and less monstrous than some of the other capitalists to keep the system limping along without a socialist revolution.
Capital's ability to periodically present a new set of legitimating principles that facilitate the willing participation of society accounts for its remarkable longevity despite periodic bouts of deep crisis.
Episode: Part Two: The Ballad of Bill Gates
The podcast used excerpts from the book to highlight the unsettling aspects of Bill Gates's ideology, especially his focus on profit-driven solutions to global health issues, such as prioritizing cures for baldness over malaria.
As Bill Gates has wryly noted, they are more interested in cures for baldness than in cures for malaria. Why?
Melinda Gates argues that there is simply no rich world market for products like diarrhea or pneumonia vaccines.
Their solution is to use the Gates Foundation to create such a market in poor countries.
The KIPP schools follow an extended day strict disciplinary regime.
Students learn how to walk, get off the bus and use the restroom in the KIPP way. Students are not allowed to talk at school except to answer questions and they have to earn their desks.