What Do You Think of the Two Pieces?

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"I didn't expect it to be literature, as you were saying, the sort of prescient description of capitalism and how it takes over," says Yether. "As i was reading it, i was like, fak if this isn't an even better description of capitalism to day than it was of capitalism at that time."

In honor of Labor Day, David and Tamler dive into two works by Karl Marx - "The Communist Manifesto" and "Estranged Labor." What is Marx's theory of historical change? Why does capitalism produce an alienated workforce? What role does philosophy play in maintaining the status quo? Plus, fraudulent data in a famous study about dishonesty and former guest Dan Ariely is under investigation.