Bhaskar Sunkara
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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The majority will consume more of them.
Also, I think a lot of these programs are the bedrock of a healthy society.
So one reason, for example, that we have so much crime and violence in the U.S., there's lots of cultural and other causes with our level of gun ownership, American history, and so on.
But
One really important factor is just the level of poverty and inequality in the U.S.
compared to other countries.
That combined with guns and other factors means that we live in more violent, unequal societies.
A European...
would be shocked by the fact that in even some of our, our nicest areas and our city isn't elsewhere because there's a lot of rural violence too.
Um, it's just normal to have gun, uh, violence.
It's normal to have, uh, drug related violence.
You know, the, we have what, like four or 500 people some years in like Baltimore, like a city of under a million getting, getting killed.
Um,
These are all recipes for a society in which, one, the public sphere is drunk like crazy because you're not going to go wander out for an evening stroll in a park if you live in a dangerous area or whatever else.
The rot goes very deep, and a welfare state is one way to...
to live in a better society for everyone.
There's been plenty of studies.
There's one book called The Spirit Level on inequality that was quite popular that just notes that inequality is really terrible for the psyches of the rich too, not just for the poor.
So I think spending some more money living in a more just society is doable.
There's different ways to address certain costs.
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