Shad: I think, andi thinkan, although i haven't read capital doscopito, but i think, like he does talk about this kind of a consumerist. And the thing that he might not have anticipated is just all the different ways that these consumer products distract us. That has a kind of a stultifying effect; you don't want to go to union organizing meeting when you just go home and binge, watch whatever. It gets in the way of any kind of real organizing that would need to happen for any kind of serious revolt,. Right? No, totally.
In honor of Labor Day, David and Tamler dive into two works by Karl Marx - "The Communist Manifesto" and "Estranged Labor." What is Marx's theory of historical change? Why does capitalism produce an alienated workforce? What role does philosophy play in maintaining the status quo? Plus, fraudulent data in a famous study about dishonesty and former guest Dan Ariely is under investigation.
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