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A complex of complexes

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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Why You Need a Profit Making Venture to Grow

Capitalists are good at using money to get what they want. And the system is companies make weapons, those weapons make them money. They use some of that money to get congress to buy more weapons, and around and around it goes. We are now living with the pain s by the prison industrial complex. Because, like the military, prison used to be something that cultures had to do because there were outlying behaviors that they wanted to remove from society. But once you turn prison into a profit making venture, then the person who owns part of the prison wants there to be more prisoners. That's why it's called complex. It's a system where one thing feeds the other, which

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