Introduction

Akimbo is a show about bending the culture. In this special labor day episode of akimbo, i want to talk about the most efficient culture bending device ever created, capitalism. It turns out that when you give a solar flashlight to people who are used to living in the dark, it will create more demand for more solar power. And what capitalism does is mobilize itself around those demands. So air conditioning has rewritten the history of mankind. Therear entire swaths of the world that are now fully functioning year round because someone can work in 70 degree comfort instead of sweltering in hundred degree heat.