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July 8, 2023 4:49am

Economic Update ~ Capitalism's Costly Contradictions

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Economic Update: Capitalism's Costly Contradictions

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Sylvia J

January 25, 2023 8:16pm

Capitalism Makes You Complicit in Destructive Consumerism

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https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=YZ3hyeH5t7g (clip)
Economics For A New Year (full episode)

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Capitalism makes you complicit in destructive consumerism - Richard Wolff on Economic Update

In this clip, Prof Wolff explains that planned obsolescence and advertising are specific aspects of capitalism that undermine any individual's struggle against consumerism. "You make the machine to wear out much sooner than it needs to, so it...

Sylvia J

November 17, 2021 3:08am

Wolff Responds: Capitalism's False Defenses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjHch15JHVg

'Prof. #Wolff refutes the 2 main arguments made to absolve #capitalism from the #injustices and #inequalities it creates; the first, that capitalism has increased our #standard-of-living, and the second, that unlike #socialism, capitalism is not responsible for #mass #deaths, #colonialism.

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