This week we decided to try something a little different. Today we invited two guests onto the show that sit on opposite sides of a particularly meaningful topic to Americans today. The topic today is understanding CAPITALISM. We look at pros and cons, historical and cultural impacts, and popular misconceptions surrounding capitalism, and our relationship with this economic system. Please help us welcome James Carter and Jon DeAmicis! To put it plain and simple, Jon is arguing FOR capitalism, James is arguing AGAINST capitalism, and we’re going to listen to them hash it out! Why host a debate? We believe that literally anyone could do a better job of debating topics than the people who run our political debates, and we want to demonstrate that normal adults can disagree with each other and still behave. This was SUCH an exciting episode to create and we can’t wait to hear how everyone feels about this conversation! Feedback is welcome! Thank you all.
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***Here is a link to Jon's article and his sources cited in this podcast:
https://medium.com/@theangyyardgnome/sources-of-inequality-abd0f40665bd
***Here are the sources cited by James:
Alston, P. P. (2017). Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Washington: The United Nations . Dubois, W. (1960, April 9). Socialism and the American Negro. Great Hall, Madison Wisconsin Memorial Union, Madison, Wisconsin. Dubois, W. (2013). Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880 . In W. Dubois. United States: Transaction Publishers. Durkhiem, E. (1897 ). Relations of Suicide With Other Social Phenomena . In E. Durkhiem, Suicide: A Study in Sociology. Paris. Marx, K. (1959). Estranged Labor. In K. Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. First Manuscrip (pp. 28-36). Moscow : Progress Publishers. Piketty, T. (2013). Marx: The Principle of Infinite Accumulation. In T. Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century (A. Goldhanmmer, Trans., pp. 1-40). United States: Harvard University Press. Schneeweiss, Z., & Fergal , O. (2020, June 17). U.S. Ranked Worst for Workers’ Rights Among Major Economies. Bloomberg Economics. Setty, G. (2019, Dec 5). US lost more tax revenue than any other developed country in 2018 due to Trump tax cuts, new report says. CNBC Markets. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2020). January . Washington DC: United States Department of Labor. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2020). Union affiliation of employed wage and salary workers by selected characteristics. U.S. Department of Labor . Washington, DC: US Labor Department. Wagner, P. (2020). Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020. Northampton, MA: Prison Policy Initative.
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