201. We Are All Surplus (ft. Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant)
This Machine Kills
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Health Communism - A Great Book
Sally Kohn: I think the book and our conversation here, you know, one of the arguments you make so powerfully in the book just now is this idea of that we are essentially all towards surplus. If you're not already labeled as waste or as a eugenic or fiscal burden on society,. Just wait, just wait a little while. And you too will be on the cusp of that label, whether just through time, sickness or technology, right. She says health communism presents an alternative way of understanding what health should be. The contours of capitalism have formed around health to the point that they have come to appear inextricable from each other, she adds.
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