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Episode 17 - American Innocence (Ft. Danny Haiphong)

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The American Dream

The realities of capitalist life in the united states are some of the harshest in the world because there is no social democracy here. The mythology just serves as a way to create a buffer between what people really need and what people are willing to ask for. I think like half f the country is making less than 30 thousand dollars per year in the united States. You can't afford a two bedroom apartment with that. So that's the american dream. Its's it's, as malcolm ax put it, it's an American nightmare.

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