The Energy Balance Podcast EB. 103: How Western Culture Keeps Us Poor And Destroys Our Family, Community, and Relationships
- How lower wages and higher costs have dramatically reduced our quality of life
- How we’ve ended up working more and resting less with worse outcomes
- Whether advancements in technology have improved the quality of life of the average person
- How marketing and consumerism keep us on the hamster wheel
- The hidden costs of convenience culture
- Concerns surrounding the collusion between government and corporations
- How divide and conquer tactics convince us to blame each other rather than the powers that oppress us
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Click here to check out the show notes:
Timestamps:
1:34 – how western culture degrades safety and security through financial means
7:33 – how lower wages with higher costs reduces safety and forces people to prioritize work over quality of life
15:14 – we currently work more with less leisure time than ever before, with worse outcomes
20:24 – the cost of consumer culture and marketing as an engine that drives consumerism
30:53 – the cost of convenience culture: freedom, privacy, morals, ethics, and health
36:14 – the problems with profit-driven motives and the collusion between government and corporations
45:36 – how western society has become fragile and unstable
51:13 – how western culture degrades relationships and feelings of love and belonging
52:41 – continued how western culture degrades relationships and feelings of love and belonging
53:27 – divide and conquer tactics within western culture and encouraging the “us vs. them” mentality