Join us as we connect the dots from Claude Shannon's wartime genius in information theory to the shocking evolution of modern corporate power. This episode unpacks a 400-year journey, revealing how shareholder capitalism is a direct extension of slavery, from the Dutch East India Company's armed might to Citizens United's legal capture. We explore how America's unique history of tax policy, rooted in plantations, shaped a social psychology that resists public taxation yet willingly accepts private corporate exploitation – a "voluntary bondage" where our minds are conditioned to prefer corporate tyranny over democratic accountability. Discover why organizing society around individual wealth maximization is arguably "the biggest blunder" in human history.

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