Historian of American capitalism Professor Eli Cook joins WIRED to answer the internetβs burning questions about capitalism. Who invented capitalism? Do corporations have more power than governments? How would life in the U.S. look if it wasnβt a capitalist society? Answers to these questions and many more await on Capitalism Support.
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00:00 – Capitalism Support
00:10 – Capitalism: Eat, sleep, monetize, repeat
00:53 – The new, meaner, form of capitalism
01:32 – The invisible hand has a lot to answer for
02:27 – Trickle-down economics or corporate greed?
03:58 – Capitalism vs. communism vs. socialism
05:14 – Chinaβs GDP target? Yes.
07:04 – Hell on earth
07:28 – Capitalism π€ socialism
08:28 – Corporatocracy
09:14 – Is the state working for the capitalists?
10:42 – Error 404: Ethical billionaire not found
11:54 – Conquering poverty at $9.99 a time
12:52 – AI just gave the invisible hand a faster keyboard
14:16 – The sloppiness of capitalism
14:56 – Free market means free to exploit, right?
15:48 – The American Dream is just a throwback
17:05 – Monopoly: Great game, terrible economic model
19:06 – America wasnβt always like thisβ¦
20:24 – Nothing says ‘sustainable future’ like quarterly profit projections
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When information comes across as good or bad you know itβs bias opinion
Save the world
Man CALL IT OUT! Stop tip toeing around the bad stuff weβre dealing with today. Capitalism is cooked! Time to move on.
He completely mishandled the last question since capitalism could be in harmony with stopping global warming if governments imposed pollution taxes, especially a carbon tax. Capitalist countries still need revenue, so why not raise it through taxing bad things rather than good things. Itβs better to tax pollution than it is to tax wages and investment. Pigovian taxes like this are sensible but perhaps politically impossible because people are dumb, not because of capitalism.
China – can only take all these people out of poverty with western technology and markets….
that communism description was sus…
The radical is the best podcast!!!