Winners and Losers

Stranger:

But the art which holds sway over them all and watches over the laws and all things in the state, weaving them all most perfectly together, we may, I think, by giving to its function a designation which indicates its power over the community, with full propriety call “statecraft.”

– STATESMAN (Plato 360 BC)

[00:04:07] A Quick Review[00:16:33] The Sentinel Card[00:18:09] Manslaughter[00:21:38] Whited Sepulchers[00:25:28] There is a War on the Poor[00:27:29] True Competition[00:30:06] The Great Swindle Continues[00:32:06] Efficiency versus Skimming[00:33:18] Masquerading in Conservative Garb[00:40:00] What Counts as a Subsidy, as Entitlement?[00:40:10] Energy[00:48:35] Food[00:51:00] Food & Drug Nexus[00:52:05] The Dynamics of International Relations[00:54:58] Manufacturing from Z to A[00:57:00] Retail[01:00:07] True Free Enterprise[01:02:20] Financial Services[01:03:06] Big Pharma[01:07:57] Offloading Losses & Expenses[01:08:12] The Gig Economy[01:16:48] Again, Taxpayers Pick Up the Slack[01:18:59] The Most Parasitic Business Model[01:22:56] The Third Rail of Politics[01:27:29] The Power of Incumbency[01:30:41] Bring them in, train them, return them as emissaries of social uplift