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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 1468 Capitalist Imagination
Description: There’s an intentional attempt, mostly successful, to conflate capitalism with free markets, though a free market can exist without capitalism. Capitalism is built on the concept of imaginary money, where more money is made from money, all of it imaginary, and making money is the ultimate goal. Free markets are centered around productivity, and productive members of society are easily identified because they produce something. Values like the “Protestant work ethic” seems quaint by today’s standards when the goal of every young person is to be an online influencer making money simply by being adored by everyone else. Even if...