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Part One: Why is the Rent So Damn High?

Behind the Bastards

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Do You Know What's Going on in Alaska?

The Department of Justice accuses Alaska and several other airlines of artificially inflating prices using the system, which costs taxpayers about a billion dollars between 1988 and 19 or 92. The government gets settlements and consent decrees out of eight airlines, including Alaska; nobody goes to prison for this shit. After this, Roper leaves the United States for central and eastern Europe to fuck with people's lives and post Soviet Europe. He's one of these capitalists who goes over there because he's like, Oh, there's a lot of money to be made in setting the stage for Vladimir Putin's rise to power by siphoning money away from any kind of like social safety net that might be built.

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