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EPISODE · Aug 17, 2024 · 18 MIN

Two days is not enough weekend. A Rational rant about inequity.

from The Rational View podcast with Dr. Al Scott · host Al Scott

This episode is a rant about why people don’t have time to become better informed about the issues. It is about why people are rushed. It is about why people feel mistreated by the system. The Rational View is going to rant about inequity and highlight the growing resentment amongst the struggling middle class at the elite robber barons of capitalism. Capitalism is about greed. It is about gloves-off below-the-belt big-stack bullying that pretends it provides a level playing field. I’m no communist. I believe that a well regulated market system is probably the best way that we know of to efficiently distribute goods…But I’m not taken in by the rich ponces who have been pushing the big lie that lack of market regulation and union busting is good for us.  If you are too young to recall the collapse of the entire capitalist system due to under-regulation, I will remind you of 2008 and the sub-prime mortgage collapse where the government spent trillions of dollars to pay off the bad bets made by the Wall Street elite financial class. Our current system is capitalism for the masses and socialism for the rich. Its a system that is happy to grind away the earnings of lower and middle class citizens and to keep them fighting for table scraps, but if Biff is about to miss a yacht payment the government is only more than happy to give his bank a few hundred million dollars of quantitative easing to help their bottom line. My interview with Naomi Oreskes on her book the Big Myth is an eye opener that I highly recommend. Support the podcast at patron.podbean.com/TheRationalView Add your voice on Facebook @TheRationalView

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