28 min.
We can have nice things! Persisting
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In this episode, we talk about this simple idea: We Can Have Nice Things. The corporate lobbyists and politicians owned by corporate lobbyists – cough Manchin, cough Sinema – want us to think we live in a world of scarcity. What does that mean? Well, in a world of scarcity, if you have a tiny little crumb, that means I don’t have that tiny little crumb, and there’s only one crumb so we have to fight over it. But that’s really the wrong way to look at it. The fact is, if everyone in the country – the richest country in the world, by the way – if everyone just paid their fair share in taxes, we could rebuild the middle class, dramatically reduce poverty, and close the racial wealth gap, not to mention the racial health gap and the racial housing gap.
In this episode, we talk about this simple idea: We Can Have Nice Things. The corporate lobbyists and politicians owned by corporate lobbyists – cough Manchin, cough Sinema – want us to think we live in a world of scarcity. What does that mean? Well, in a world of scarcity, if you have a tiny little crumb, that means I don’t have that tiny little crumb, and there’s only one crumb so we have to fight over it. But that’s really the wrong way to look at it. The fact is, if everyone in the country – the richest country in the world, by the way – if everyone just paid their fair share in taxes, we could rebuild the middle class, dramatically reduce poverty, and close the racial wealth gap, not to mention the racial health gap and the racial housing gap.
28 min.