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Why Didn’t Anyone Go to Prison for the Financial Crisis?

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Learned Helplessness

Do you know the term learned helplessness? I do. It's becoming generalized term for basically if you're subjected to abuse and the abuse is taken away, you'll still behave as if it's happening or could happen. But this is like the floorboards. This is the foundation for the beautiful house that we're going to build where injustice will do. Yes. Okay. Second vocabulary term. Do you know where it comes from? Well, doesn't it come for when, in the mid 20th century, because I was the golden age of terrifying laughing experiments on animals. They would put dogs and kennels that I think would give them electric shocks that they tried to escape

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