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Epiosde 183 - Supp-Lie Demand (w/ Cory Doctorow) (Patreon)

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This week, journalist, activist, & blogger Cory Doctorow destroys right-wing (and lib) lies about inflation, explains what can and should be done about gas and food prices, and offers one of the most digestible explanation of how the US budget actually works. This is one episode you're going to want to send to that one uncle.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Comments

Patrick Massey

If it's too difficult to feed people or subsidize gas, I can understand that. But if that is the case, we can't we take some other major expenses off the plat of Americans, for instance with Medicare for All or Student Loan abolition. These are literally parasitic forces on our economy and getting rid of them would be a boon to the average worker.

Anonymous

FANTASTIC episode (again!). Thanks, BJG & Cory!

Anonymous

BRILLIANT! BJG:”There are ALWAYS consequences .... But so often the idea that there are going to be winners and losers in policy making is used to maintain a status quo in which there are also winners and losers.....” Cory Doctorow:” I think that’s key: the winners of the current system are not considered beneficiaries of the system, they are just considered the natural winners of the system...”

Anonymous

Can't wait to listen in

Anonymous

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Anonymous

Seems reasonable and competent, but this guy isn't destroying anything, he's giving an opinion that many other intelligent people would disagree with. It might stump “that one uncle”, but in the full marketplace of ideas, it will just get lost. Macro-level socioeconomic problems are not like problems in the hard sciences. There is no mathematical proof one can provide that guarantees the desired outcome. So on these subjects, the Dunning-Kruger Effect seems to apply to the entire IQ distribution. Very intelligent and educated people are arrogantly proclaiming to have knowledge they do not have. And what do we do about that? Should people be a bit more humble when proposing solutions? Yes, but the incentive structure in politics makes humility and open-mindedness a liability? There seem to be a host of game theory issues keeping us from any progress. Wow, this gets more depressing and hopeless the deeper you dig. Is it possible our evolved capacity for cooperation is just reaching its limits?

Adam Burch

Idk but if anyone is interested in socialism, then they shouldn’t have much confidence in market competition between firms. Any championing of anti-trust is just wishing to create a more “pure” version of capitalism. A very Warren-esque idea of capitalism that should just be more “fair”. Economies-of-scale really does have greater efficiencies than thousands of small firms that just create redundancies and duplicate production. Heavy industry and the commanding heights of the economy shouldn’t be “broken-up”, but instead nationalized where command production and price controls can be easier applied. Also no mention of taxing the rich, which is understandable from the guest because MMT avoids class struggle for just another market based solution. Heavy tax regimes in the past have helped drive down inflation, but said tax should of course be progressive with all the tax burden on the rich.

Anonymous

Bri I was so excited to see that you had Cory on, I have read all of his books and I am a huge fan. Was a little disappointed that the discussion was so conventional. His fiction is so imaginative. Still a very good interview. You should have him on again and just discuss nerdy tech and DMCA kinds of issues. He's really amazing

Behold 666

Cory Doctorow is god.

Anonymous

Great episode! Thank you! Cory is a great guest. I hope to see him back soon.