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Episode 474: Chuck Klosterman

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What Is the Central Problem in Society?

If you talked to young person now, like i'm saying, like a smart, kind of engaged 25 year old person now, and you say, like, what is the central problem in society? Um, they'd probally say, capitalism. That's a very popular answer now, that capitalism is the problem. It doesn't matter what its merits are or aren't. Anything that sort of promotes capitalism, props capitalism up, and is a tool of capitalism in a lot of ways. The idea of choice, though, that did seem like, i mean, there was, there was some reality in that.

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