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201. We Are All Surplus (ft. Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant)

This Machine Kills

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Those Are Perfect Podcaster Synergy

The Australian ABC talked about how upwards of 30% of the cost of Medicare which is our, you know, Medicare for all kind of a social policy can be associated with waste and fraud. And I just want to make clear that extractive abandonment doesn't just happen to the patients. It happens to the workers, the care workers to this is squeezing efficiency out of the austerity applied to the people receiving care. People don't associate themselves with the surplus that they could be old or sick or subjected to these systems. They do the surplus does on our productive system right like even though the numbers don't ever bear out that no poor families making billions of dollars in profit by doing like fraudulent Medicare whatever

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