The Energy Balance Podcast

EB. 103: How Western Culture Keeps Us Poor And Destroys Our Family, Community, and Relationships


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In this episode we discuss:
  • 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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    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   

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