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In this episode I cover the main contributing factors that cause both the gender and ethnic wage gaps we hear so much about today. Through this I hope to dismantle the on-going narrative that specific groups of people are being paid less for the same job and same working hours just purely based on an active discrimination on behalf of the employers.

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In this episode I try to brainstorm a bit on our definitions of poverty and inequality in the west and across the world. We keep hearing that there's an increase of poverty around the globe, but what exactly does this mean?

The poverty line is something defined by the standards of living in each country. In Belgium for example someone earning 1112 euros net a month is considered poor, should we take this statistical definition or should we have a different perception about its meaning?

I think we shouldn't be as concerned with inequality per se, as that involves comparing the standards of different groups of people. Our main concern should be how much the people at the bottom have or should have, as we should make sure that every human being has enough to cover their physiological needs so they can live their lives with dignity, concentrating on other important aspects of life like family, friends and career.

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P.S.: I did not take into account the new economic crisis following the COVID19 pandemic. So don't put too much emphasis on the numbers themselves, but on the perception of the terms "inequality" and "poverty".

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In this episode I criticise how politics has become the overarching theme of public discourse, dictating our every move, thought and word. We have to change the way we approach our lives and stop emphasising - at least to some extent - the importance of it. There's so much more to life than politics in itself, even though it is a big part of our day-to-day lives. We shouldn't disregard the other axioms like family, career, leisure, social life or any other branch we want to pursue throughout our lifetime.

This may sound contradictory coming from me, and in a way it is, but I really do believe that the overwhelming majority of people just want to make politics boring again.

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In this episode I am joined by Aye Kari Soe to speak about the current situation in Myanmar. We bring up the historical context of the country and why her family and numerous others had to flee years back.

After the application of an ilusionary democracy, Myanmar seemed to be getting better throughout the past decade, until a military coup took place this past February 2021 after the outcome of a general election was judged fraudulent. Throughout this undemocratic regime, countless civilian lives have been taken daily by the illegitimate military government in power.

I hope you all enjoy listening to her testimony and our conversation about the current global socio-political dynamics and phenomenons.

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In this episode I try to speak about the underlining misunderstandings and misinterpretations there are when it comes to migration in a general manner. There is a reluctancy to even adress this issue for fear of being missunderstood or labeled in a certain way, just the more reason to bring up the conversation and stop bowing to the taboos.

If this conversation doesn't happen in good faith in the social spheres, the people that will end up losing are refugees and people in need themselves. We should start adressing the important issues to solve the problems we are facing, together.

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This episode is a bit a reactionnary rant to my previous episodes and what I try to share throughout them. People generally are not willing to accept that they might be wrong, and show a certain stuborness when it comes to opening up to new ideas that completely dismantle their own. The only way your ideas, perception and views can sustain throughout time and space is if you expose them to the other ideas people might have, henceforth testing out their rigidity.

I really do hope that bit by bit people will be engaging into dialogues with a more open mind, and that in the end, the best ideas will prevail in this chaotic world we live in if we all play by the same set of rules and agree on the underlining principles of free speech.

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In this episode, I try to cover all the underlining principles, ideas and revendications of feminism. After recording I realised I got nowhere near all the different aspects of the movement, and lots of things still need to be adressed, mostly in the historical context. That said, I hope that after this you can get a better grasp of the modern feminist movement and how it's divided in itself.

The topic in its specificities opens the discussion for numerous other issues to tackle, which I will try to bring up in the near future and dig in a little bit more into each and every single one of them.

Again, I ask everyone to open up their minds to other ideas and make their own research.

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In this episode I make my case on why everyone should be a sceptic but at the same time explain the downfall of too much scepticism, or uncontrolled scepticism might be a better way to put it.

Always ask yourself the relevant questions about everything you see, hear or feel.

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In this episode I speak about something I call "Non-Identified Opinion" and how its perception has applied massive constraints on the free exchange of ideas between individuals.

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In this episode I will be speaking about cancel culture and how that way of thinking is highly dangerous for our public discourse, both in private and public spaces.

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