They told you to "work hard and you'll succeed." But what if that story was never true?

In this episode of 🎙 The Bigfoot Manifesto, host Dave Pederson sits down with journalist and author Sarah Jaffe (Work Won't Love You Back, From the Ashes) to expose one of America's biggest fairy tales — the Myth of Meritocracy.

From corporate bootstraps rhetoric to the illusion of "equal opportunity," we break down how the system rewards privilege while preaching hard work. Spoiler: Bigfoot figured this out ages ago.

👢 Bootstraps are a scam. 🦶 Bigfoot knows better.

🎧 Listen everywhere: ▶️ YouTube (full episodes) → https://youtu.be/SwPfMLRxFmo 🎧 Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/2HbT63sX0MS9oKpBygXYvj 🍎 Apple Podcasts → https://apple.co/46Vjxul

📚 About Sarah Jaffe: Sarah Jaffe is a journalist and author whose work explores labor, inequality, and the emotional toll of capitalism. Her writing appears in The Nation, The Atlantic, and The Guardian.

👉 Buy Sarah's Books: • Work Won't Love You Back → https://amzn.to/3UuPndW • From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire → https://amzn.to/3Vspn3m

About The Bigfoot Manifesto: A satirical progressive politics podcast where cryptids meet capitalism and Bigfoot organizes the forest union. We unmask the myths that power modern politics and laugh at the billionaire fairy tales along the way.

💡 Because believing in Bigfoot makes more sense than believing billionaires will save us.

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