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38: Mass Media, Markets, and Human Malware: A Portal Q&A

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The Problem With Capitalism

The H-1B doesn't actually even allow you to listen to wage signals from other employers. It's effectively a tethering device to make sure that you are wedded to the person who employed you. The second they come after me and they call me a xenophobe, I'm going to tell the actual full story about how they conspired to destroy their own labor market for the very people that they were supposed to promote and protect. We have a failure to launch our post-capitalist society. You're watching capitalism come unraveled. Both capitalism and communism are intrinsically unsustainable. That's what Adam Smith had to do with Bitcoin and crypto. We have to invent the future.

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